"Reserved" statement

[Michael Kwok]

Thanks.. I missed this..

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins at isc.org>
To: <dhcp-users at isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: "Reserved" statement


> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 09:30:47PM +0900, Michael Kwok wrote:
>> I read about the "reserved" keyword in the manual and was wondering where 
>> to
>> place it in the config so that the server serves the same address to the
>> same client.
>
> It isn't a dhcpd.conf directive, it's a dhcpd.leases directive (since
> this is a failover feature, it represents dynamic state, rather than
> statically configured state).
>
> Just insert it into the lease {} stanza of your choosing (dhcpd
> should be stopped first, restarted after).
>
> I think we put in OMAPI wrenches to update the lease dynamically,
> but I can't tell you a lot about that, and it would be bad advice
> to send you down that maze of twisty passages.
>
> There will be a command-line interactive way to do this in a future
> release.
>
> -- 
> David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time,
> Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again."
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins
>
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