Default Gateway via DHCP

[Daniel L. Miller]

Simon Hobson wrote:
> At 13:16 -0700 7/8/08, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>> Below is an excerpt from my dhcpd.conf for version 3.  Nearly 
>> everything is working correctly, but I've noticed the default gateway 
>> is not being set correctly on my clients.  The gateway SHOULD be 
>> 192.168.0.72, but the clients are showing 192.168.0.1. I'm defining 
>> the "option routers" at pool and group levels - I don't know why.
>
> Not sure if it will make any difference, but you should move your host 
> declarations out of the subnet declarations - host statements are 
> global in scope, but have strange inheritance when defined inside a 
> subnet. It's especially problematic when a host is defined in one 
> subnet, but gets physically moved to another.
>
Is that documented anywhere (that the hosts should be globally 
defined)?  I knew that the groups were global.

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Daniel L. Miller, VP - Engineering, SET
AM Fire & Electronic Services, Inc. [AMFES]
dmiller at amfes.com 702-312-5276