DHCP "static" assignments

Chris Buxton clists at buxtonfamily.us
Wed Aug 7 20:59:19 UTC 2013


On Aug 7, 2013, at 1:53 PM, "Gruher, Joseph R" <joseph.r.gruher at intel.com> wrote:

> Sounds like you're overcomplicating it.  I just do it like below.  Here .10 through .99 will be handed out dynamically to whoever comes along, and MAC 00:1e:67:38:de:69 will always get .201.  Add additional host entries as needed.  The host name needs to _not_ be in the range of the pool or I get an error and a fail when I try to start DHCP services, IIRC.
> 
> subnet 12.12.12.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> 	option subnet-mask 	255.255.255.0;
> 	option	domain-name	"joedomain.org";
> 	range	12.12.12.10	12.12.12.99;
> 
> host node01 {
> 	hardware ethernet 00:1e:67:38:de:69;
> 	fixed-address 12.12.12.201;
> 	option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> }
> 
> }

It is bad practice to put host entries inside subnet entries.

Regards,
Chris Buxton


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