Charrua DHCP - a DHCP client, server and wire frame encoder and decoder

charrua is an
ISC-licensed DHCP library implementation in OCaml.
It provides five packages:

• charrua: a library that handles wire traffic parsing

• charrua-server: a DHCP server implementation

• charrua-client: a library for handling DHCP client state and messages

• charrua-client-lwt: a DHCP client library with timeouts and network read/write

• charrua-client-mirage: a MirageOS-compatible set of interfaces to charrua-client-lwt

• charrua-unix: a Unix DHCP server implementation

Charrua

The name charrua is a reference to the, now extinct, semi-nomadic people of
southern South America.

Charrua consists of the single module Dhcp_wire responsible for parsing and
constructing DHCP messages,

You can browse the API for charrua at
https://mirage.github.io/charrua/

Features

• Dhcp_wire provides marshalling and unmarshalling utilities for DHCP, it is the
  base for Dhcp_server.

• Logic/sequencing is agnostic of IO and platform, so it can run on Unix as a
  process, as a Mirage unikernel or anything else.

• All DHCP options are supported at the time of this writing.

• Code is purely applicative.

• It's in OCaml, so it's pretty cool.

Charrua-server

The module Dhcp_server supports a stripped down ISC dhcpd.conf, so you can
probably just use your old dhcpd.conf. It also supports manual configuration
building in OCaml.

dhcp
is a MirageOS DHCP unikernel server based on charrua,
included as a part of the MirageOS unikernel example and starting-point
repository.

Charrua-client

charrua-client is a DHCP client powered by charrua.

The base library exposes a simple state machine in Dhcp_client
for use in acquiring a DHCP lease.

charrua-client-lwt extends charrua-client with a functor Dhcp_client_lwt,
using the provided modules for timing and networking logic,
for convenient use by a program which might wish to implement a full client.

charrua-client-mirage exposes an additional Dhcp_client_mirage for direct use
with the MirageOS library operating system.

Charrua-unix Server

charrua-unix is an ISC-licensed Unix DHCP daemon based on
charrua.

Features

• Supports a stripped down ISC dhcpd.conf. A configuration sample can be found
  here

• Privilege dropping: the daemon doesn't run as root.

• Almost purely-functional code.

• Support for multiple interfaces/subnets.

Try charruad --help for options.

This project became one of the Mirage Pioneer
projects.