Simple DHCP server for just one device

I am building a small system that has one embedded computer and one etheet device. The embedded computer has a fixed IP address (from the manufacturer), but the etheet device uses DHCP to get its address.

Is there a fast and easy way to let the embedded computer give the device an address? It runs Debian, but I want to try to avoid to use apt-get to download new packages, as it will be extra work (connecting the inteet, setting routes, etc) when building more of these systems.

I am thinking of a simple drop-in dhcp server. I experimented a little with pydhcplib, but that seems a little immature.

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