class options.

[Simon Hobson]

Gene Rackow wrote:
>I'm trying to determine the best way of handling this.
>We are using netreg to add people to the dhcp system as known hosts.
>
>As a question/option on the web pages, I'd like to have a checkbox
>for a "feature" that would put allow the machine to be put into a
>seperate pool.
>
>On the example page is how to set up the 2 pools with allow/deny members.
>What I'd like to do is have the host entries look like:
>host host-122 { hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:33:55; class foo };
>host host-123 { hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:33:66; class bar };
>host host-124 { hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:33:77; class bar };
>host host-125 { hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:33:88; };
>
>The docs seem to indicate that this isn't going to work the way
>I want it to.  Could someone suggest how this could be set up?

Check 'man dhcpd.conf' and look for the sections 
'classes' and 'subclasses'. There you will find 
exactly how to do it :
(NB: I see no reason why classes defined this way 
need be mutually exclusive, ie you could add the 
same client to two classes if that was what you 
needed for your network)