[lug] Dhcpd issue

[Nick Golder]

To seperate your hardware address, use the colon rather than the dash.  The 
rest looks fine.
-Nick
> I'm trying to setup a simple dhcpd server but it's turning out to not 
> be so simple. I just need it to serve a single ip for one windows 
> client. The ip is static, so I don't need a range, the dhcpd server 
> simply needs to provide the ip to this particular host everytime it 
> connects to the network. I tried setting up dhcpd.conf with "host" 
> specific declarations but it did not work:
> 
> subnet 206.247.117.0  netmask 255.255.255.240 {
>    host muxcha {
>    hardware ethernet 00-D0-59-15-FF-D9;
>    fixed-address 206.247.117.66;
>    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.240;
>    option routers 206.247.117.65;
>    default-lease-time 604800;
>    max-lease-time 2592000;
>    deny unknown-clients;
>    deny bootp;
>     }
> It tells me this:
> Bogus number: 00-D0-59-15-FF-D9
> 
> I don't even know if I have the config file right :/  The only other 
> idea I have is to set up a range for the subnet and just make the range 
> the ip that I want to give to this computer, like this:
> subnet 206.247.117.64 netmask 255.255.255.240 {
>    range 206.247.117.66 206.247.117.66;
>    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.240;
>    option routers 206.247.117.65;
>    default-lease-time 604800;
>    max-lease-time 2592000;
>    deny unknown-clients;
>    deny bootp;
>     }
> 
> Any ideas on a better way to do this? Or accomplish what I want to do 
> in the first place? TIA.
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> 
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