Provide instructions and demo how to successfully run dhcp server on Linux Ubuntu about dhcpserver HOT 7 OPEN

Here's the issue: dotnet/runtime#83525.
The workaround looks clunky, will try it tomorrow.

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Update: got it working on Ubuntu , so the trick is to bind to 0.0.0.0:67 but before that do a SO_BINDTODEVICE (bind to a specific nic) so it will only act as a DHCP server on that nic's subnet.

see https://github.com/jpmikkers/DHCPServer/blob/netcore/DHCPServer/Library/UDPSocketLinux.cs

Meanwhile, in that branch I've refactored the code a lot to use async/await, still needs some work in the main app though.

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Hi,

This could be a source for information:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74940771/not-receiving-broadcast-udp-messages-when-binding-to-specific-address

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@n-ice-ch I've created a test setup with ubuntu in virtualbox, indeed it seems broadcast packets are dropped somewhere. Disabling ufw doesn't help. I suspected my router, but the broadcasts arrive fine when I send them from ubuntu to windows. .To be continued..

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Binding to 0.0.0.0 is a bad idea for a DHCP server, it will start handing out IP leases on all your subnets.

From here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13666789/receiving-udp-broadcast-packets-on-linux it seems I may have to bind another socket to the subnet broadcast address (e.g. 192.168.42.255) to receive broadcast packets on Linux.

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Sounds promising.

I've worked with IPAddress.Any for meanwhile. In my case it does not matter which subnet to serve as I use it as simple PXE.

But on Linux I can serve BIOS requests only. For EFI it does not work with IPAddress.Any.

So I'm very interested on your research.

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