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How to Use Raspberry Pi as a DHCP Server (DNSMasq & more)

A Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer running Linux that can be used in many home projects. One example of a home project a Raspberry Pi can be used for is as a critical node on your network, such as a DHCP server.

A Raspberry Pi can be used as a DHCP server by installing Raspberry Pi OS and the package DNSMasq. Then it’s required to edit the configuration to set a static IP address for the Raspberry Pi and configure the DHCP range for the other devices on the network.

In this article, I’ll show you the easiest way to do this with Raspberry Pi OS, and then discuss other solutions you can try.

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Can a Raspberry Pi be a DHCP Server?

As a general rule, any device running Linux with network capabilities can be a DHCP Server, so Raspberry Pi models with an Ethernet port can do this. The packages aren’t installed by default, but they are available in the official repository.

However, take notes as it comes with limitations. Some older Raspberry Pi models don’t have a network port to do this, and others only have one. So, if you need to handle several subnets, Raspberry Pi might not be the best option.

At work, I used a mini PC like this one on Amazon with Pfsense on small sites, it works fine, and it’s probably more stable than a Raspberry Pi.

Generally, you have an Internet router at home that’s already acting as a DHCP server, so most of the time there’s no need to use anything else for this.

Anyway, in some cases, the Raspberry Pi can do a fantastic job as a DHCP server, either to experiment with this network concept or for a real use with specific network requirements. I’ve tried this in the past with a wireless router. The DHCP server was on the Wi-Fi network and the Raspberry Pi routed the traffic to the Ethernet network ( learn more about this here ).

How to Use Raspberry Pi as a DHCP Server

The easiest way to use a Raspberry Pi as a DHCP server is to install and configure DNSMasq. Its main purpose is to be a lightweight DNS forwarder, but it also brings DHCP features for small networks.

Install Raspberry Pi OS

I’m doing this tutorial on Raspberry Pi OS, so I recommend doing the same. It should work on other Linux distributions, but this will allow you to use the same commands and configuration options as me.

So, the first step is to install Raspberry Pi OS . If you need help with this, click on this link to read my step-by-step tutorial.

Set a static IP address to your Raspberry Pi

Once installed, the first thing to do is set a static IP address on your Raspberry Pi. If you don’t have a DHCP server currently, you probably don’t have network access yet. And even if you have a DHCP server, you need to set it to fix the Raspberry Pi IP address.

I have a step-by-step tutorial on this website where I explain how to set a static IP on a Raspberry Pi (click the link to read it now), but I’ll give you the short version here.

Decide what your network architecture will be

Firstly, you might need to define the subnet you’ll use for this setup. In general, I would recommend using the same network as your Internet router, but you can choose something different and change the router configuration later.

For example, let’s say your main subnet is 192.168.1.0/24, and your router is 192.168.1.1. You can then choose to use 192.168.1.2 for the Raspberry Pi, and define a DHCP range between 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.200.

When you decide this, it’s better to avoid IP addresses and ranges already used if you currently have an active DHCP server. On my network, all IPs (except the router) are between 1.20 and 1.50, so it shouldn’t cause an issue.

Set a static IP address on Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm

Since Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm, we are now using Network Manager to handle the network configuration, and so things have changed a bit. Overall, it’s easier to set a static IP with this version, here are the main steps:

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  • Choose “ Edit connection ” and pick the connection you want to set to static, and select “ Edit… ” on the right.
  • On the next window, scroll the cursor to the “IPv4 Configuration” line.

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As mentioned earlier, I have a full tutorial explaining how to set a static IP address . I highly recommend checking it now if you need more details.

Set a static IP address on older versions of Raspberry Pi OS

If you are not using the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS, follow these steps to set a static IP address:

  • Open this configuration file with Nano: sudo nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf

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  • Save and exit Nano (CTRL+W, CTRL+X).
  • Now, you can restart your Raspberry Pi to apply the changes: sudo reboot

After the restart, your Raspberry Pi should now be connected to the Internet, with the new IP address set, and you can continue with the basic installation.

If you have difficulties with Nano, feel free to check out my guide with all the shortcuts and commands, you can find it here .

Are you a bit lost in the Linux command line?  Check this article first for the most important commands to remember and a free downloadable cheat sheet so you can have the commands at your fingertips.

Install the prerequisites

We can now continue with the Raspberry Pi OS initial configuration: configure the network, and update the system and packages. Enabling SSH is also a good idea , so you can copy and paste the commands I give you directly from your computer.

Once done, the only thing we need for now is to install DNSMasq, you can do this with the “Add/Remove software” tool on the Desktop version, or simply use: sudo apt install dnsmasq

DNSMasq will start automatically. It’s configured as a DNS forwarder by default, so it shouldn’t be an issue as none of your devices are using the Raspberry Pi as a DNS server for now.

A DNS forwarder is a service that forwards DNS queries to your main DNS server on the network. It can be useful to add custom hosts or to keep a cache of your DNS requests. Any new requests will be forwarded to another server.

Disable your old DHCP server

Most of the time, your Internet router already acts as a DHCP server. So, you first need to disable it to avoid conflict. If you keep both enabled, your computer and other devices will get an IP address for one of them randomly (the first to answer) and it won’t work as expected.

The steps to disable it will depend on the router you have, so I can’t give you more details about this. Check the documentation for your router model or your ISP website.

Configure DNSMasq

Configuring DNSMasq is not complicated. Everything is in one configuration file, and there is only a few lines to add:

  • Open the DNSMasq configuration file with Nano: sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf

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DNSMasq is a service, to apply changes you need to restart it: sudo service dnsmasq restart

Once done, any device you plug into your network will get an IP address in the defined range. Your Raspberry Pi will act as a DHCP server (which was the goal of this tutorial) but also as a DNS forwarder. So, any host added in the /etc/hosts file can be used on other devices on your network.

The DHCP server doesn’t require any maintenance over time, but you can use tools like Webmin if you want a web interface to manage DNSMasq. It will be particularly useful to see the IP range usage and configure the DNS server.

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Alternatives to DNSMasq as DHCP Server on Raspberry Pi

As explained at the beginning, DNSMasq is the easiest way to get a basic DHCP server running on Raspberry Pi, but it’s not the only option . You might want something more complex, with more features or a better interface. I got you covered below with other solutions you can try.

Wireless Router with Firewall

My first suggestion is to do something similar but use the two interfaces (if you have a recent model). For example, you can use your Raspberry Pi 3B+ or 4 as a wireless access point, set up the DHCP server on this interface and even add some security features with a firewall. The Ethernet card will be used to access the Internet.

That could be a great project to add a guest Wi-Fi network in a small business, but whether you’re doing this for a valid reason or just for fun, it’s an interesting project to learn a few network skills.

I have an in-depth article explaining all the steps to put this into practice, from the conception to the installation and configuration of everything. I highly recommend checking it out, even if you just need some clarification about this article. How to use Raspberry Pi as a Wireless Router with Firewall .

Pi-Hole is a well-known ad-blocker, free and open-source that can be installed on Raspberry Pi. Most of the time, it will be only used as your DNS server, and each request will be filtered to check if it’s an ad or not.

The installation is pretty easy: one command line and a few questions to answer. Once installed, you’ll have access to a web interface with many configuration options. One of them allows you to enable a DHCP server in a few clicks.

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If having a web interface to configure everything is important to you, that’s probably the best option. You can configure everything here, and you can see and set DHCP leases just below.

Want to give it a try? Check out my tutorial on how to set up Pi-Hole in 5 minutes on your Raspberry Pi . And I also have a tutorial here on how to install Pi-Hole on Ubuntu , if you prefer using Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi or another computer.

Recently, AdGuard is becoming more and more popular and do similar things. You can read more about it here: Getting Started With AdGuard Home On Raspberry Pi (vs Pi-Hole) .

ISC-DHCP-Server

Another option is to use ISC-DHCP-Server, eventually coupled with Bind for the DNS server. It should work on Raspberry Pi, but it’s a bit more complicated to configure these services, so I don’t recommend using them.

If you have an important network where you need a more advanced solution, the Raspberry Pi is probably not the best option for you anyway. So, even if ISC-DHCP-Server is often used on Linux, I don’t think we need it on Raspberry Pi, DNSMasq is perfect in this case.

Also, for more important networks, Pfsense is not (yet?) available on Raspberry Pi, but as explained in my article here , there are still great firewall options that you can use on Raspberry Pi.

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3. After that, execute the below command to open the dhcpcd.conf file via Nano editor. Keep in mind that Nano is a keyboard-based editor , so you can’t use your mouse to move between lines and edit the file.

How to Set a Static IP Address on Raspberry Pi

8. That’s it. You have assigned a static IP address to your Raspberry Pi in a few easy steps. Now, your router will only use the static IP address you have set for your Raspberry Pi.

Using the Router Settings to Set Static IP on Raspberry Pi

Configure Your Router

4. Click on “Add” and enter the IP address of Raspberry Pi in the “Reserved IP Address” field. You can find the IP address of your RPi board by entering hostname -I in the Terminal. To find the MAC address of your RPi , scroll down and look for the client list mentioned on the same admin page. Next, give a name in the “Description” field and turn on the “Enable This Entry” checkbox. Finally, click on “Save”. It will reserve Raspberry Pi’s current IP address, making it a static IP.

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WTF… This is all WIFI! What if I have my RPi connected to my router via a 1000MHz ethernet cable? You shd be more general, and not assume everyone connects thru ther wifi.

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Mini Guide: DHCP Reservations

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Dhcp reservations.

Note: This note was originally in the Network Booting a Raspberry Pi 3 from an Ubuntu Server post.

To make life easier DHCP Address reservations can be added in the main body of the DHCP config so that each MAC Address gets assigned the same IP:

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Using the Raspberry Pi as a DHCP server.

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In the first tutorial , we set up the Pi with Rasbian, stuck it on the network, with a static IP and enabled SSH for remote log in. That’s all well and good, but there’s no point if it’s doing absolutely nothing. It’s time to get it performing some tasks. Here we are going to set the Pi to act as a DHCP server.

What’s a DHCP Server?

Quite simply, it is a service that keeps track of which computers (more specifically: MAC addresses ) have been assigned what IP address on a network. This prevents clashing, where 2 machines could have the same IP address, enabling everything to talk to each seamlessly. Under normal circumstances machines are automatically provided an IP address, this is known as a lease. After the lease has expired, the machine requests the DHCP server assigns another IP address to the computer. This could be the same or different as the one it had before. Most people do not care too much about what IP address their machine has or whether it changes to something else. But, as we noted when setting up Rasbian, a static IP address is useful when you want to easily be able to find the machine, and route particular traffic to it. At a home level, your ISP provided outer is most likely also a DHCP server. If you’re new to this, you’ll never even realised it existed, or could be done on a separate device to your router.

If The Router Does This, Why Do We Need To Make The Pi Do This?

Because we can. If you’re reading this article I’m assuming you want to learn more about how the inner workings of things work. Also that you want to tinker with Linux to get a broader understanding of the technologies involved. Last, but not least, administrating this ourselves gives us far more flexibility and power. Many routers do the job, but don’t give much room for us to do anything other than the basics with it. For example, the Sky router I have doesn’t allow changing the name servers (an internet address book, basically) that we perform domain names look ups on, when connecting to the internet. By setting up our own DHCP server, we can change this and use our domain name servers (DNS).

As with most things, getting our DHCP server up and running involves installing a package. We’re going to install ISC DHCP Server on to our Pi. We’ll get the latest package information, with apt-get update, then install the package.

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Once the package is installed, Linux attempts to start the service. But it hasn’t been configured yet so you will be greeted with a plethora of errors and failures. Hardly the most reassuring of messages but do not worry about these. We’re going to configure it next.

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Configuring

Now to get down to the task of telling the DHCP what it needs to know, about your network, in order to run.

If you don’t know your router’s IP address, you can get it by running the following command

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Make a note of the IP address under the Gateway column. Now you should have set a static IP when setting up Rasbian. If you didn’t, go back to that tutorial and do so. You will need it when running a DHCP server. If you need a refresher on your hardware configuration, use ifconfig. In this tutorial my Pi is running 192.168.0.141.

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Now to set the information required for DHCP. Edit the server’s configuration file.

Towards the top of the file change the following lines so that your network has its own name. Also change the example domain name servers. In this case I’ve set the name servers to be Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and Google (8.8.8.8).

Next, enter the information that is relevant to your network. This is a very basic example, but will serve our requirements to get up and running quickly. The subnet is the base IP address that all leases will be set to. Range sets the start and end addresses that will be leased. Note this example starts at 2. We only ever want the router picking up the first 192.168.0.1 address. Option routers tells the DHCP where the server that connects us to the rest of the world lives. In this case the router. But this could easily be another server.

Next up we need to configure the protocols we’re going to use. In this instance we are not going to configure IP6 and use IP4 only. I won’t go in to go into the differences between the two protocols here. Suffice to say IP6 allows for far more unique IP addresses than IP4 does. There’s a useful website with more detail, if you wish to know more.

And do the following:

  • Uncomment the line DHCPDv4_CONF=/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
  • Uncomment the line DHCPDv4_PID=/var/run/dhcpd.pid
  • Set the line reading INTERFACESv4=”” to read your network adaptor (i.e INTERFACESv4=”eth0″)
  • Comment out the line INTERFACESv6=”” with a # sign.

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Save the file with Ctrl-X, Y, Enter.

Start The Server

We’re almost there. At this point you can try starting up the service. If all is good, you’ll be back at the command prompt and you should be good to skip to the stage where you switch off DHCP on your router. However, it’s is possible it’ll error due to more ISC quirks.

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If you do get errors, examine journalctl -xe yourself and you’ll hopefully get an idea of what the problem is. It should be that another process is already running. I’m not quite sure why restarting the service doesn’t always hunt down and kill all these processes, but we need to do it manually. Find the PID of the already running process.

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That first number is the ID of our rogue process. Time to terminate it. If you have more than one process attributed to dhcp then kill them all.

Now try and start the service again.

All being well, you’ll silently return to the command prompt. If you keep getting errors then you’ll need to keep working though the messages in journalctl and try and work out why it keeps failing. Nobody said the Linux world was easy, and there are always unanticipated problems unique to every scenario.

You now have to switch off the DHCP capabilities on your router. Every router is different in this regard, and you’ll need to consult your router’s instructions on how to do this. Once done, your Pi should take over as the network’s DHCP server.

Check The Server Is In Use

Restart your desktop and check your network adaptor settings. If your Pi is now serving the network correctly, you should see its IP address as the DHCP server. You’ll also see the IP addresses we set up to be our name servers and the network name we made, at the top. Your desktop machine should have an IP address in the range we set in the dhcpd.conf file. If it does not, and reads ‘autoconfigured’ you’ve missed something out.

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You’re all set.

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There is a typo in the suggested command to edit the isc-dhcp-server config

sudo nano /etc/default/ics-dhcp-server

should read: sudo nano /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server

also consider using journalctl -r to troubleshoot any errors. This showed me that my configured range was bad. Once corrected the service would start

Thanks for the feedback. I’ve amended the typo. 🙂 I wrote this article when I was properly starting to learn Linux. Over the last couple of years I’ve learned a lot more, and took on a DevOps role. I am enjoying finding out things I may not have known about before. This whole website is to help me remember what I’ve done, and hopefully help others, too.

sudo nano /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server

should read: sudo vi /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server

very nice blog btw!

I keep meaning to switch to vim, as my main editor. But my muscle memory is stuck on nano… for now…

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Static DHCP Reservations not working

I have configured pihole as my DHCP server, All my clients successfully receiving a DHCP address from 10.31.27.1/24. I have a few Static IP`s for machines on my network. pihole is not assigning my PC the correct staticIP I require but is instead assigning an IP address from the DHCP pool. I have checked, double checked and triple checked the MAC address is correct. If i delete the DHCP lease, unplug and re-plug in my network cable pihole assigns me the same IP address from the pool over and and over.

If i run tail -f /var/log/pihole.log | grep DHCP from putty i can see pihole assigning my pc 10.31.27.19 which is incorrect as i have a static reservation for 10.31.27.5 configured.

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I am running Linux Mint Debian Edition with Unbound on Pihole v5.2.4. Apart from the OS unsupported messages when updating pihole, everything is working as intended, just static dhcp assignment is not.

The Cisco Aironet Access Point in the screenshot is working on 10.31.27.3 as expected and is configured to use DHCP. This issue only seems to affect Windows 10 device assignment at this stage.

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/ch3c32ta50

You are in fact running an unsupported OS. We'll take a look at the problem nonetheless.

Your Pi-hole is at the following IP:

IPV4_ADDRESS=10.31.27.2/24

When the debug log discovered the DHCP server, this is what it found - replies from multiple DHCP servers, not just one.

Thanks JFB, I am technically using 2 DHCP servers. I have a Google Wi-Fi system and the DHCP service cannot be turned off on that device so on the GWi-Fi ive set the DHCP address pool as 10.31.27.2 so all DHCP requests get routed into pihole. 10.31.27.2 is the pihole server. It`s IP is statically set on the server itself. The NIC on the server is eno1. From the log if im understanding it correctly, eno1 is offering up 2 IP addresses. One is the router of 10.31.27.1 and the other is 10.31.27.2 (pihole). I cant see an explanation from the debug log of why pihole isnt assigning my pc the static address. From the DHCP Pool everything is working a treat.

How did you accomplish deleting the lease?

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Ok i think i`m getting closer to the issue. When i check /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases, my PC does not appear in the list but all my other devices are there. the DNS Suffix im receiving is servehalflife which is configured by pihole. Somethings amiss here.

Ive now got it working. I do not know if it was luck, I set the PC NIC to a static address manually. After i did that i didn't appear to have internet, so i reverted back to automatically assign and my PC got 10.31.27.5 which is the static address pihole dishes out I`m starting to think this isn't a pihole DHCP but a Windows issue. I can see now in the pihole leases window that my pc has successfully been assigned 10.31.27.5

I have a similar issue and hope someone can help me please.

I have a raspberry pi 4 (debian buster) that does always get an IP out of the DHCP pool although I have set static DHCP leases for the WIFI and Ethernet MAC Addresses. I flushed / cleared all arp and dns cache and rebooted pi-hole several times but it is still not working.

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I am running the Pi-Hole on: Release = Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel = Linux 5.4.83-v7+ Platform = Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1

Here is the support token: https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/mzpy3aafzw

Hope this is all the information you would need.

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Raspberry Pi (or another device) suddenly not getting a DHCP address?

Tonight, after I made a couple changes to my wired in-house Gigabit network (I recently added a few Cat6 runs after moving my main Wireless router—in this case an AirPort Extreme base station), I noticed the Raspberry Pi webserver that was hosting www.pidramble.com wasn't reachable over the network, and Server Check.in started reporting an outage.

I have that particular device set using a DHCP Reservation based on it's MAC address, and it's been working like a champ for over a year. So something was strange, since I hadn't made any networking configuration changes on the Pi itself in a few months, nor had I unplugged it at all in the past month.

After spending an hour or so plugging the Pi into a monitor/keyboard to run through diagnostics, checking over /etc/network/interfaces and trying static for the eth0 configuration with a given IP address, trying dhcp , and trying manual , and using every software trick in the book, I couldn't get the Pi to see the in-house network. But the lights on the Pi's LAN jack were lit up and blinked here and there, meaning it saw the network. And my network switch lights lit up and blinked too... something was definitely up!

I then started looking into hardware issues:

  • I tried plugging the Pi into another jack on the switch, that didn't work.
  • I tried plugging the Pi into a different switch, that didn't work.
  • I tried pulling the microSD card out of the Pi and swapping the entire Pi (thinking the network port might be physically damaged). Nothing.

I was at my wit's end, when I remembered that (since AirPort's own utility only shows connected Wireless clients) I should use arp to see all the devices my Mac could notice on the network. When I ran $ arp -a , I noticed something funny about the Pi's IP address:

The Pi was supposed to be at 10.0.1.99... and what's more, arp ran really slow for some reason (usually it's a pretty quick lookup).

I was browsing some threads discussing this issue when running arp and noticed this answer , mentioning the physical network being a potential point of failure. I went back over to my switch, unplugged and replugged all the cables... and VOILA! The Pi now gets its reserved IP address.

Also, arp -a runs faster, and returns the MAC address (instead of (incomplete) ) for the Pi.

So, moral of the story: if there's ever a really weird, sudden networking issue with one of your computers, and you haven't changed anything on the software side in some time... it could just be a flaky cable or plug!

Further reading

  • Setting a Static IP address with Raspbian Jessie Lite on the Raspberry Pi
  • Setup a FOSCAM WiFi camera directly connected to a Mac via Ethernet
  • SSH into a Raspberry Pi with only a network cable using OS X's 'Internet Sharing'
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