December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
9h 3m
English
book
Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters
by Dino Quintero, Prabhakar Attaluri, Tomas Baublys, Xinghong He, Chin Yau Lee, Francois Thomas
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3.13. DHCP server configuration
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) can be used for automatically assigning IP addresses and other information to the hosts in the network. The configuration contains only one file. However, starting the dhcpd server in the enterprise network with one dhcpd server already running can result in some confusion or damage if the clients configured to use dhcp suddenly receive other addresses.
So be sure to have your server in a separate network, or use statical IP configuration for all nodes and servers that you do not want to serve. Clients usually take the first address offer they get, and often it is the wrong one.
Example 3-25. /etc/dhcpd.conf
not authoritative; ddns-update-style ad-hoc; default-lease-time ... |