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Howto set up selective dhcp server?
Name: intx13 Date: September 6, 2005 at 20:11:30 Pacific OS: Debian 3.1 CPU/Ram: Celeron
Comment:
Hey,
So I've got a network, with a whole dhcp server setup already on it. I want to add a server that will provide a small number of IP addresses to hosts (based on MAC address), and completely ignore all other hosts.
I can get it to do the whole MAC based IP thing just fine... the problem is that all other hosts, instead of going off to the other DHCP servers, get the failure signal from my server and die without an IP.
I'm using dhcpd on Debian 3.1, with a rather minimal dhcpd.conf that I can post if need be. All I really want to know is what it would take (no failover setups please) to get my server to completely ignore and not respond to broadcast packets from hosts not in the static IP entries.
Name: Rick McNabb Date: September 7, 2005 at 10:16:38 Pacific
Reply:
Setting up a firewall on the server would help...
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Response Number 2
Name: intx13 Date: September 7, 2005 at 14:55:23 Pacific
Reply:
Hmm, perhaps I didn't explain myself very clearly. In any case, I found a solution. I'm now using udhcpd, another DHCP server, instead of dhcpd, which does what I want.
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