On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:41:42PM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: > >An other problem is the specification of the ip-address. When I omit the > >ip-address from the dhcp-host setting, I get > > > > BOOTP(eth0) 00:03:12:54:ab:de no address configured > > > >How do I specify that for the given range of mac addresses dynamic > >ip-adresses should be used? > > From that log line, it looks like your host is using BOOTP, not DHCP.
True, that far (it's an old piece of iron ;-) > BOOTP is a older subset of DHCP, and doesn't support dynamic address > allocation. Unless you can persuade your hosts to do DHCP, you will have > to use static address allocation. Ummm... I'm not very much convinced about that. In my installation, dnsmasq provides both, BOOTP _and_ DHCP. I can't see any reason _not_ to provide dynamic adresses to BOOTP hosts. The client will accept any address provided by the server. So where's the problem? -- No software patents in Europe -- http://nosoftwarepatents.com -- Josef Wolf -- j...@raven.inka.de --