dhcp config question

[Phil Savoie]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Barry Brimer wrote:
> 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.

Thank you, Barry!   That was exactly the right thing to do.  Much appreciated.

Phil