On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 09:45, Doug B wrote:
On Saturday 15 January 2005 04:50 am, Richard Bos wrote: Let's see if I understand what you want. You don't want to (or can't) change the config on the dhcp server servering the (main) network, but you want to set up some thin clients and they need to be served in a special way by a dhcp server.
I *think*, you can do that. I haven't tried it. In my dhcp server, I set each thin client up in a separate host section. I serve my thin clients by mac address and use static ip addresses for them (and sometimes some host specific options). I also serve the 'regular' network clients with this dhcp server in a subnet section. If I pulled that subnet section out, I *think* it would no longer serve the regular network but would serve the individual hosts that were defined. Maybe someone with more dhcp knowledge could answer that for sure.
Doug
The DHCP server that will answer requests is the one that is authoritative for the subnet and is the fastest to respond. Where I used to work there were two DHCP servers. One for the local LAN and one that was used for the WAN. I don't see a viable way to have two local servers unless one had restrictions based on the MAC address otherwise they would be fighting with each other to hand out addresses and you would end up with duplicate addresses. You might be able to use different ranges of addresses on two servers using one for resolution based on MAC address and the other would have to restrict the same MAC addresses. The only sure way is find out is through trial and error. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*