June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 30m
English
You now have a router that provides Internet access to all systems behind it, but the systems behind it need to be manually configured with IP addresses while avoiding conflicts. You also need to configure them with DNS servers for resolving host information. To solve this, we're going to configure a DHCP server on your router to be responsible for handing out addresses.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) allows you to centralize your IP address management. Machines which are added to a network will issue a DHCP request asking any available DHCP server to provide it with configuration information including IP address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS server, and so on.
Let's set up DHCP in Debian/Ubuntu:
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