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Subject: Re: DHCP server for FreeBSD 4.0 
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:51:58 -0700
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> From: "Charles Peters - Tech Support" <support@tecpro.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:24:46 -0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> I am running a FreeBSD 4.0 server router/gateway to provide 
> internet access for my lan via a cable modem, and I have decided 
> that I need a to set up a dhcp server on this machine to 
> dynamically assign ip address to my client workstations running 
> Win98 and Win95.
> 
> I would like to be able to pull about 10 ip addresses out of the 
> avaliable pool of ip addresses avaliable for dynamic allocation, as 
> they are reserved for certain machines.
> 
> My server is running on a 486-DX2-66 machine with 32mb of ram, 
> and about 300 mb of free disk space.  I do not have an x-server 
> running on this machine.
> 
> Any recommendations would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles

I would suggest the ISC dhcp server. Their client (dhclient) is part
of the FreeBSD base system, but they also have a server. In fact, the
server came first.

It's in ports as net/isc-dhcp2 and net/isc-dhcp3. Version 3 has a LOT
more features, but is still beta code and is probably not as reliable
as version 2. In either case, I'd suggest making fixed addresses for
the systems you don't want to move a round or simply skip them in the
pool declaration. If you set them up as fixed addresses, you will need
the Ethernet addresses of the systems for the configuration.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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