pydhcp 0.2.1rc1

A Python DHCP library and server implementation

pydhcp

A Python DHCP library and server implementation.

Features

• DHCP Packet Parsing — Full support for parsing and constructing DHCP packets.
• DHCP Server — Highly customizable and async-friendly DHCP server.

Installation

pip install pydhcp

Quick start

Synchronous Server

from pydhcp.server import DhcpServer

server = DhcpServer()
server.listen()

Asynchronous Server

import asyncio
from pydhcp.server import AsyncDhcpServer

async def main():
    server = AsyncDhcpServer()
    await server.start()
    # Keep running or handle other async tasks
    # To stop: await server.stop()

asyncio.run(main())

Command Line Interface (CLI)

pydhcp includes a command line interface for listing network adapters, decoding packets, running benchmarks, and starting servers.

# List all network interfaces
pydhcp interfaces

# Decode a hex-encoded DHCP packet
pydhcp packet --decode "01010600..."

# Run performance benchmarks
pydhcp bench

# Start the DHCP server from JSON or INI config
pydhcp server --config config.json

# Increase logging while debugging
pydhcp server --listen 127.0.0.1:6767 --log-level debug

Development

See development notes for environment setup, dependency install, and test commands.

Releasing

This project follows Semantic Versioning and keeps a CHANGELOG.md. Pushing a tag matching v* triggers the release workflow.

Documentation site

MkDocs builds the API reference from docs/, published on every release. The docs also include a "Common DHCP Options" page with typed examples.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.