Default Gateway via DHCP

[Daniel L. Miller]

Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Simon Hobson wrote:
>> At 13:16 -0700 7/8/08, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>>> Below is an excerpt from my dhcpd.conf for version 3.  Nearly 
>>> everything is working correctly, but I've noticed the default 
>>> gateway is not being set correctly on my clients.  The gateway 
>>> SHOULD be 192.168.0.72, but the clients are showing 192.168.0.1. I'm 
>>> defining the "option routers" at pool and group levels - I don't 
>>> know why.
>>
>> Not sure if it will make any difference, but you should move your 
>> host declarations out of the subnet declarations - host statements 
>> are global in scope, but have strange inheritance when defined inside 
>> a subnet. It's especially problematic when a host is defined in one 
>> subnet, but gets physically moved to another.
>>
> Is that documented anywhere (that the hosts should be globally 
> defined)?  I knew that the groups were global.
>
Is that the issue?  That because I have the static hosts defined in the 
group, do they not inherit from the subnet?

But I also have added a router declaration to the group - so it should 
still work!
-- 
Daniel