I find the current DHCP implementation configuration files a pain to deal with. The protocol also seem a bit more complex than the requirement. Sometimes I had the thought that writing a new DHCP server is easier than to write the configuration file..
The only catch being that current PXE stuff assumes DHCP. But anyway for some cases it might just be useful to write a small network service that upon request "MAC 11:22:33:44:55:66 wants config" responds with "IP 1.2.3.4 mask 0xff000000". Plain and simple.
Any thoughts?
Yes DHCP sucks, you could use a UDP broadcast of your own. However part of the fun would be making it use DHCP.
