<div style="color:darkred; background: #f8e6e6; border: 1px solid #aa0000; padding: 1em; margin: 1em 3em">'''Note that a few of the benefits of your HDA, such as short names, etc. will not work if you disable DHCP on your server.'''

Here are the [http://www.amahi.org/faq#is-dhcp-server-required DHCP tradeoffs] if you would like to only use some of the functionality.</div>