On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:18:39PM -0700, Clarence W. Robison wrote:
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> On 26 Jul 2007 at 16:05, Clarence W. Robison wrote:
>
> > I have an entry in my dhcp3 dhcpd.conf which says that host xyz with
> > certain MAC address should receive a fixed ip address. The server does
> > not respect that entry and gives the IP address to another host with a
> > different MAC address. I don't quite understand why it, dhcpd, should do
> > that. Is normal behavior?
> >
>
> OPPS, the message left before I could paste snippets of the conf file.
> ------------ dhcpd.conf ---------------------------------------------- # #
> Global Options pid-file-name "/var/run/dhcpd.pid"; lease-file-name
> "/var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases"; log-facility local1; ignore client-updates;
> ddns-update-style none; option domain-name-servers XXX.XXX.XXX.3,
> XXX.XXX.XXX.223; default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time
> 14400; authoritative; subnet XXX.XXX.XXX.0 netmask
> 255.255.255.192 { # Default Options
> option routers XXX.XXX.XXX.1;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.192;
> option domain-name "XXXXXXXX.XXXXXX.XXX";
> option time-offset -25200; # Mountain Standard Time
> option ntp-servers XXX.XXX.XXX.3, XXX.XXX.XXX.58;
>
> range dynamic-bootp XXX.XXX.XXX.22 XXX.XXX.XXX.60;
Here, you tell dhcpd it's OK to hand out 22 - 60 to non-matching hosts,
so it does just that. Fixed address and range assigned addresses should
not overlap.
> host xxx {
> hardware ethernet 00:13:20:2d:31:d1;
> fixed-address XXX.XXX.XXX.22;
> }
--
Rob
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