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[AARON RILEY]

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>From: Simon Hobson <dhcp at thehobsons.co.uk>
>Reply-To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Subject: Re: how respond only to specific clients
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:51:23 +0100
>
>Carl Karsten wrote:
>
> >  > All your hosts you want to supply dhcp to will need to be defined in 
>a
> >>  host statement. You'll need one of these for each known host.
> >>
> >>  Something like this should do it:
> >>
> >>  host foo1 { hardware ethernet aa.bb.cc.dd.ee.ff; }
> >>  host foo2 { .... }
> >>  ...
> >>
> >>  subnet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> >>    pool {
> >>      option routers 192.168.0.1;
> >>      option ...
> >>      ignore unknown-clients;
> >>      range 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.254;
> >>    }
> >>  }
> >>
> >>  Repeat for as many hosts and subnets as required.
>
> >Don't you need that whole thing wrapped in a group { .. } ?
>
>No. That is optional, and would typically be used when you want to
>add/change some option(s) for a bunch of hosts - perhaps you want to
>give 'known' hosts a longer lease time. Instead of adding options to
>each host statement, you put them in a group and add the options to
>the group.
>
> >Also, what is going to make it " look for another dhcp server." ?
>
>The client will broadcast for a server to give it an offer. If
>there's more than one server then they should all reply (if
>configured). If this server is configured not to answer, and another
>one does, then the client will automatically use the offer it gets
>from the other server.
>
>So really there is no such thing as 'looking for another server', it
>all comes under looking for any and all servers that service the
>subnet.
>
> >I don't think what is being requested can be done, at least not reliably. 
>  the
> >"look for another dhcp server" sounds like "broad cast again and see if 
>the
> >other server responds quicker this time" and there isnt anything
> >preventing that
> >from happening the first time.
>
>It does work, as described above. No special settings other than
>configuring which servers will consider/ignore which clients.
>
>Simon
>

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