DHCP is a simple task. If you've got any existing server, be it Linux, Windows, or even your firewall, just have one of them do it. No need to dedicate another machine to manage just for DHCP.
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:48, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
