On 26 Jul 2007 at 16:05, Clarence W. Robison wrote:
> I have an entry in my dhcp3 dhcpd.conf which says that host xyz with
> certain MAC address should receive a fixed ip address. The server does
> not respect that entry and gives the IP address to another host with a
> different MAC address. I don't quite understand why it, dhcpd, should do
> that. Is normal behavior?
>
OPPS, the message left before I could paste snippets of the conf file.
------------ dhcpd.conf ---------------------------------------------- # #
Global Options pid-file-name "/var/run/dhcpd.pid"; lease-file-name
"/var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases"; log-facility local1; ignore client-updates;
ddns-update-style none; option domain-name-servers XXX.XXX.XXX.3,
XXX.XXX.XXX.223; default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time
14400; authoritative; subnet XXX.XXX.XXX.0 netmask
255.255.255.192 { # Default Options
option routers XXX.XXX.XXX.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.192;
option domain-name "XXXXXXXX.XXXXXX.XXX";
option time-offset -25200; # Mountain Standard Time
option ntp-servers XXX.XXX.XXX.3, XXX.XXX.XXX.58;
range dynamic-bootp XXX.XXX.XXX.22 XXX.XXX.XXX.60;
host xxx {
hardware ethernet 00:13:20:2d:31:d1;
fixed-address XXX.XXX.XXX.22;
}
host yyy {
hardware ethernet 00:03:47:f4:6b:8e;
fixed-address XXX.XXX.XXX.23;
}
....... snipped out 27 fixed-address blocks ..........
host zzz {
hardware ethernet 00:19:d1:05:ce:fd;
fixed-address XXX.XXX.XXX.50;
}
}
-------------------- endof conf -----------------------
The ip address which are not "fixed" in the conf file do not appear to be
all in use when this happens.
Any advice would be appreciated.
TIA
Clarence
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208-423-6610
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