Forcing a Mac address to a specific pool

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008, Gideon Viator wrote:
>
>   Hey guys,
>
>
>   I am running ISC dhcp software in redhat linux enterprise. There are
>   multiple pools setup. I have a client that I want to only obtain an IP
>   address from a specific pool. I am denying them in a previous pool by
>   mac address using a class and matching the hardware substring. But
>   once denied, it does not continue to the second pool. I also need to
>   block everyone else from the second pool except that users mac. How do
>   I do this?

Why don't you assign that client a specific IP address using a
host declaration such as:

host somehost.example.com {
	hardware ethernet 00:11:d8:c2:61:45;
	fixed-address 192.168.253.66;
}

Bill
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