[plug] dhcpd config

[stephen shah]

thanx 4 your input,

yep, it doesnt like dishing out ip's on two different subnets using the one 
interface.

Your mates idea of using a router as the host subnet name is worth a go.
I read some doco on that and will give it a go

cheers



>From: Simon Scott <simon.scott at flexiplan.com>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: Re: [plug] dhcpd config
>Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:01:09 +0800
>
>	This is actually an interesting point.
>
>	If both subnets are on the one interface, then the only way I can
>think of doing would be to explicitly declare the mac address - ip pair in
>the conf file for every machine.
>
>	If they are on seperate interfaces, quite possibly you would have to
>run two copies of dhcpd with 2 conf files.
>
>	The 2 ip-addresses/1 interface problem is that only one ip should
>(can?) respond to any ethernet broadcasts. At that point, the client 
>machine
>is not on any subnet, so dhcp wouldnt have a clue which it belonged to
>without explicitly declaring it. You are basically left with what bootp is.
>
>	Anyone else have thoughts? Id never really thought about this until
>now.
>
>	A friend here reckons that since each subnet has its own router, you
>can setup dhcp-forwarding on each router so that dhcpd knows which 'subnet'
>the broadcast comes from. This appears to be the MS way of doing it, and 
>may
>or may not apply to unix.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>	From:	stephen shah <shahmann at hotmail.com> on 31-05-2001 10:09 PM
>	Please respond to plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
>	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au@SMTP at Exchange
>	cc:
>
>	Subject:	[plug] dhcpd config
>
>
>	hello there,
>
>	has anyone got a copy of a dhcpd.config file I could view.
>	I am trying to setup a number of subnets
>	eg 192.168.31.
>	   192.168.32.
>	   192.168.33.
>	using a netmask of 255.255.255.0
>	I have one subnet dishing out ip's ok based on mac address's but
>	when I declare another subnet in the dhcpd.conf file
>	she no work
>
>	thanx>
>
>
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