Creating an IP pool for a limited set of MAC addresses with class declaration

[Niall O'Reilly]

On 27 March 2014 16:37:34 GMT+00:00, Shawn Routhier <sar at isc.org> wrote:
>
>On Mar 27, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Arun Khan wrote:
>
>> For a bunch of BYOD devices (20-30), I want to give them IP number
>> from a specific subnet.
>> 
>> Am I on the right track with the following snippet in the dhcpd.conf?
>> 
>> class "byod" {
>> 
>>   match if  (hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;);
>>   #.... list of the remainder ethernet addresses
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -- Arun Khan
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>
>You may want to look into using the subclass construct.
>You would have your class byod and then define a number of subclasses
>for it one for each mac address.

Big understatement, IMHO.
Subclass approach is likely to give a huge run-time advantage.
ATB
Niall

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