Technology

Install ISC DHCP on Mac OS X Server

First off, I should say that I am a big fan of the DHCP server (bootpd) bundled with Mac OS X Server. It is a great solution for small networks (eg. home or small office networks), as it is rock solid, and management via the Server Admin GUI makes configuration and management easy. However, having run the DHCP server bundled with Mac OS X Server on a 2000 node network for two years, management started getting…complicated. To make a long story short, while the Server Admin GUI interface is great for small networks with one or two subnets, once you start pushing out many subnets with large numbers of statically assigned IP addresses, that interface becomes a monster to maintain.

Read More…