Forcing a Mac address to a specific pool

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Wed Jul 9 21:51:19 UTC 2008


Gideon Viator wrote:

>I am running ISC dhcp software in redhat linux enterprise. There are 
>multiple pools setup. I have a client that I want to only obtain an 
>IP address from a specific pool. I am denying them in a previous 
>pool by mac address using a class and matching the hardware 
>substring. But once denied, it does not continue to the second pool. 
>I also need to block everyone else from the second pool except that 
>users mac. How do I do this?

The client should automatically get an address from any pool it is 
allowed to - are you sure it is allowed a lease from that pool ? To 
deny other clients, add an "allow members of ..." clause to the pool 
reserved for that client.


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