Static Leases do not work

[Simon Hobson]

Küppers, Malte wrote:
>... because the addresses defined are given out 
>to dynamic clients again (A side effect of 
>mixing static and dynamic range).

Which is why any dtatic assignments must **NOT** be part of any dynamic range.

>Then I simply tried giving the lease the 
>"reserved" state, which also worked fine, but 
>the reserved lease does not appear in 
>dhcpd.leases file after a while an so I guess it 
>is not persistently stored? Whats the difference 
>between reserved and static ?

Static assignments are where you put a 
fixed-address statement in a host declaration. 
These are processed differently to normal leases 
- no dynamic DNS, no lease record, etc.
A reserved lease is just a normal lease which has 
been set as reserved to a specific client - it 
will not be reallocated even when long expired. 
It *should* appear in teh leases file.

>I just want a single IP range where leases can 
>be dynamically made static and keep that IPŠ Any 
>ideas?

Either method shoudl work.
Either used fixed-address statements and do not 
include the fixed address in any dynamic range.
Or set a dynamic lease to reserved.

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