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Our home router is terrible at remembering configured static IPs, I'd like to use my RasPi instead. Is there anything particular I need to consider when setting it up?

berry120
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Tom Medley
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On your Raspberry Pi, all you would need to do is install the dhcp package.

Arch:

sudo pacman -S dhcp

Debian:

apt-get install isc-dhcp-server

You then edit the configuration file at /etc/conf.d/dhcp which tells the dhcp server which interface on which to listen with this line:

DHCP4_ARGS="... eth0"

You then start the server daemon with:

sudo /etc/rc.d/dhcp4 start

Now any clients that broadcast for an IP connected to eth0 will be managed by the dhcp server.

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