Q re dhcpd.conf setup

[Lamar Milligan]

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> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:05 AM
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> Subject: Q re dhcpd.conf setup
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> Greetings;
> 
> As I get to do a bit of computer repairs from time to time, I've setup a 
> little 5 address wide dhcpd server on my firewall box.  But I had a 
> problem last night getting a fresh winderz XP (spit) install to 
> connect, specifically I had to enter a gateway address in the tcp/ip 
> properties and reboot before it would connect.  It was given an dhcp 
> address according to the logs on the firewall box, but apparently not a 
> gateway address.
> 
> Should the dhcpd protocol have handled that?  It is not setup in the 
> dhcpd.conf I'm using, and I can find no references to defining a 
> "gateway address" in any of the dhcp related manpages, which does seem 
> a bit odd to me.

You can add a line similar to this:

	option routers	1.2.3.4;

Good luck.
 
> It never crossed my mind when setting it for my new lappy running FC5 
> because I'd already set that up on a fixed address basis before 
> converting it to BOOTPROTO=dhcp in the ifcfg-wlan0 file.
> 
> The dhcpd daemon itself is running on my firewall, a rh7.3 box.
> 
> A second question:  How can one add a level of security by password 
> protecting this dhcp login, makeing the client supply a correct 
> password before the lease is negotiated?  That doesn't seem to be 
> mentioned in the manpages either.
> 
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