Dynamick range, but whit fixed leaes ...

Geir Asle Borgen gab at hrp.no
Mon Jun 12 11:20:15 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:50 +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Geir Asle Borgen wrote:
> 
> >The 3 first ranges uses only fixed-addresses, but the last one is a smal
> >range of 16 addresses from 238-254, whit the "boot-unknown-clients off"
> >NOT set. And everything works the way I want it to ...
> >
> >BUT for some reason (lisens fixed to IP ...) There are some host that
> >today need to have an IP in the range 192.168.0.238-254. So I try to put
> >in a:
> >
> >host test {
> >         hardware ethernet 00:FF:00:FF:00:AA;
> >         fixed-address 192.168.0.250;
> >         ddns-hostname = "test";
> >}
> >
> >And hoped that this should be enough, so that all IP's from
> >192.168.0.238-254 should be leased out in the dynamic range, BUT NOT
> >192.168.0.250. That did NOT happen.
> >
> >Is there any way I can make this happen?
> 
> Is there a record for the number of times in a month this question comes up ?
> 
> You have to explicitly exclude the address from your ranges, like this :
> 
> pool {
>    range 192.168.0.238 192.168.0.254
> }
> 
> becomes
> 
> pool {
>    range 192.168.0.238 192.168.0.249
>    range 192.168.0.251 192.168.0.254
> }
I use "subnet" in stead of "pool" in my setup, but this method should
work fine anyhow. :)
Thanks

> 
> Simon
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