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Linux System Administration
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Linux System Administration

by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
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Chapter 8: Local Network Services
machines or even individual machines. Here’s an example of a global configuration
section at the top of a dhcpd.conf file:
option domain name "host2.centralsoft.org";
Providing Static IP Addresses
Workstations usually function fine with dynamic addresses (that is, addresses that
can change periodically or upon reboot), but servers usually benefit from static
addresses so that their addresses don’t change while they’re in the middle of a ses-
sion with a client. Thus, DHCP lets you specify static IP addresses for particular sys-
tems in dhcpd.conf. Let’s do this in steps.
First, set up the subnet, broadcast address, and routers:
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
Next, add a host section for each machine on your network. To do this, you need to
know the hardware address (often called the MAC address) for each network card,
which you can determine by using the ifconfig command on the host. Here’s an
example
host section:
# ethernet MAC address as follows (Host's name is "laser-printer"):
host laser-printer {
hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:4c:59:23;
fixed-address 192.168.1.10;
}
host1.centralsoft.com {
hardware ethernet 01:0:cO:2d:8c:33;
fixed-address 192.168.1.5;
}
Create a configuration clause like this for each server needing a static lP address, and
add it to the configuration file.
Assigning IPv6 ...
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