Reservation best practices?

Paul B. Henson henson at acm.org
Wed Jul 13 18:18:45 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 09:51:50AM -0700, Joshua Beard wrote:
 
> GAH!  I spoke too soon.  They're getting their reservations and talking - but only on their subnet.  They aren't getting the router/default gw from the DHCP server.  I have "option routers 172.30.xxx.xxx" for each subnet.  I tried doing the same on the reservation definition, but no dice.

I think I saw about this exact same question fly by within the past
couple of days ;)... Don't put the options inside the pool scope or
they only apply to the pool. Put them outside the pool scope just
within the subnet scope and host reserverations will pick them up.

> 
> 		pool {
> 		range 172.30.115.1 172.30.127.254;
> 				option subnet-mask              255.255.240.0;
> 				option broadcast-address        172.30.112.255;
> 				option routers                  172.30.112.2;
> 		}

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