Brad Bendily wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Jason DeWitt wrote:
>
>
>
>>I've seen a good bit of smoothwall talk on here, so I though I would
>>pose this question to you guys.
>>
>>I need to set up a DHCP server, I messed around with smoothwall and I
>>thought this would be an ideal solution for this. All this box need do
>>is sit and hand out the addresses. The problem comes in that in my dhcp
>>setup in smoothwall, it never asks me what netmask to use. Does
>>smoothwall automatically hand out the netmask of it's ethernet interface
>>when giving out dhcp addresses?
>>
>>I would like this box to sit behind my firewall (a /24 network) and hand
>>out addresses on a differnet network (/16).
>>
>>Thanks
>>Jason DeWitt
>>
>>
>
>It seems that smoothwall is a bit of overkill for a simple dhcp server.
>It's VERY easy to setup dhcp on your vanilla installation of your
>favorite distro. I'd suggest you do that!
>
>
>Start dhcpd with whichever interface you want dhcpd to run on:
>/usr/sbin/dhcpd eth1
>
>Here is my dhcpd.conf file:
>
># Network: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
># Domain name: my.domain
># Name servers: 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.5
># Default router: 192.168.1.1
># Addresses: 192.168.1.32 - 192.168.1.127
>#
>ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
>
>shared-network LOCAL-NET {
> option domain-name "br.no.cox.net";
> option domain-name-servers 68.109.202.25, 68.109.202.30, 68.11.16.30;
>
>
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> option routers 192.168.0.99;
>
> #option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> #option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
>
> range 192.168.0.200 192.168.0.250;
># Werd. Statically assigned.
>host brad {hardware ethernet 00:48:54:3D:19:4D;
> fixed-address 192.168.0.26;}
># Werd. Statically assigned.
>host erin {hardware ethernet 00:C0:4F:96:59:E4;
> fixed-address 192.168.0.57;}
># Werd. Statically assigned.
>host linux {hardware ethernet 00:10:5a:a6:8a:fc;
> fixed-address 192.168.0.60;}
>
> }
>}
>
Thanks brad. I'll probably just do that. I was going to go the
smoothwall route becasue of the quick and easy install and setup. To
answer my own question though, it does appear that smoothwall *must* be
handing out addresses. I had the second network set up in the dhcp range
and the dhcp server wouldn't even start. Then I replaced that range with
a range within the network that the ethernet interface is in and the
service started right up.
