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Dhcp

General dhcp and dhcpd (the server) administration page.

general information

Miraculix (192.168.200.11) (to be : appendix 10.10.1.10) is the dhcp server. The configuration for dhcpd is in the file /etc/dhcpd.conf. There is debug output of the dhcp-daemon in /var/log/messages. After changes to the configuration you have to restart dhcp with

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/etc/init.d/dhcpd restart

Forcing dhcpd to give a specific ip-address

Edit /etc/dhcpd.conf and look for the section where the network used is specified something like :

/etc/dhcpd.conf
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subnet 192.168.200.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
               pool {
                       range 192.168.200.61 192.168.200.151;
                       host comix {
                               hardware ethernet 00:11:D8:0C:AA:75;
                               fixed-address 192.168.200.90;
                       }

The 'host' section shown here is an example of forcing the machine with the specified MAC-address to use 192.168.200.90 as ip-address