[Fedora] Re: DHCP with static nodes

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Mon Jul 25 17:02:49 UTC 2005


On Monday 25 July 2005 05:52 am, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Ashley M. Kirchner kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai,
>
> 25. heinäkuuta 2005 08:10):
> >     That is no longer an option.  Many of our devices in the
> > building were installed and are supported by third party
> > vendors who have, at time of installation, configured their
> > applications to work based on those IPs.
>
> In that case, you must find out the MAC address and IP of all
> those devices and configure each MAC/IP/hostname triplet in
> dhcpd.conf like this:
>
> host example1 {
>    hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:4c:59:23;
>    fixed-address 192.168.1.222;
This is how I had to do it too, devices that got DHCP addresses that shouldn't 
have and too painful to change.  Although there is some whining generated in 
the dhcp.log for these instances the solution is simple enough.
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