Future Work

Features Implemented

Proposed Changes To Make The Code Scalable

• Server should be capable of storing a set of address pools which can be assigned to clients requesting an IP from multiple subnets.

  • The current server configuration provides IP addresses to incoming clients from a single address pool.
  • This pool consists of IP addresses from only the server's subnet.
  • The InstallDhcpServer() function adds all the attributes of the server including its own IP address and launches the start application.
  • This should be split into 2 separate functions :

    • ApplicationContainer InstallDhcpServer(Ptr<NetDevice> netDevice, Ipv4Address serverAddr, Ipv4Mask Mask)

      This function will allocate the server IP address to the Ptr argument passed, install a default traffic control configuration, creates a DHCP server app and returns that pointer.

    • void AddAddressPool(ApplicationContainer dhcpServerApp, Ipv4Address minAddr, Ipv4Address maxAddr, Ipv4Address gateway)

      It will add the IP addresses in the given range i.e. within minAddr and maxAddr, as a pair along with given gateway to m_availableAddresses (a map consisting of gateway and IP addresses allocatable a subnet).