reservation question

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:38:37 -0400
>From: Aaron Bennett <abennett at clarku.edu>
>To: John Abbott <abbottj at stgeorge.com.au>
>CC: DHCP Users <dhcp-users at isc.org>
>Subject: Re: reservation question
>
>John Abbott wrote:
>> does this work?
>> subnet 10.6.65.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>>                         default-lease-time 691200;
>>                         option routers  10.6.65.1;
>>                         option domain-name-servers      140.232.1.33;
>>                         option domain-name      "clarku.edu";
>>                         option netbios-name-servers     10.1.1.10,
>> 140.232.1.13;
>>                         option netbios-node-type        8;
>>
>>                 pool {
>>                         deny dynamic bootp clients;
>>                         failover peer "failover" ;
>>                         range 10.6.65.51 10.6.65.181 ;
>>                         range 10.6.65.183 10.6.65.194 ;
>>                         range 10.6.65.196 10.6.65.199 ;
>>                        }
>>          }
>>
>> Rgs
>> John
>>
>>
>>   
>Yup!  That appears to be the ticket!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Aaron

The reason that works is that the host defined in the host
statement inherits definitions from the subnet scope but not
from the pool scope.

Thus good practice would suggest defining only range and failover peer
in the pool and everything else in the subnet scope (unless there are
specific things only for that pool such as class membership, etc).

regards,
-glenn
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