dhcp config question

[Barry Brimer]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Phil Savoie wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Running RHEL4 and wish to setup dhcpd.  I have it runing ok but what I want to
> do is set it up so that it doesn't just give away IP addresses freely.  What
> I want to do is only allow the hosts as specified in the host declaration to
> get IP addresses.  Because I only have a couple hosts to look after, I am
> assigning IP's based on mac's; like so:
>
> host shaka {
>        hardware ethernet 00:48:54:8B:C5:38;
>        option host-name "shaka";
>        fixed-address 192.168.1.4;
> }
>
> Now I have 10 such entries in the dhcpd.conf file.  If an unknown laptop/pc
> plugs into the network I don't want the server to give out an address but
> right now it does.
>
> How do I stop from going so?

Remove any range statements from the subnet declaration(s) in your 
dhcpd.conf.