Greetings!

I am looking into setting up the ISC DHCPD server on a SuSE Linux machine at our office. The Linux installation notes describe setting it up with a required netmask of 255.255.255.255. However, our local subnet is 255.255.255.128. Has anyone had experience in setting up DHCPD like that?

Any thoughts, warnings, war stories, etc. would be appreciated.

Glenn __________________________________________________________________________ Glenn Wade Heart of Texas Region MHMR - Waco, Texas gaw@hotrwaco.hhscn.org Phone: 254-752-3451 Fax: 254-756-3133

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Glenn, I did set this up for lab purpose, and wondered about it's behavior regarding multiple interfaces. I do have two ethernet nic's and one tokenring nic in this system, but it seem to listen on all interfaces, allthough it's only configured for one. Also the help files do explain that it can only run with one interface, I was able by changing it's startup script, to start this deamon twice to cover two interfaces. That it listens to all interfaces is probably due to some routing functionality ... I did set the server in a class-C network segment, and all seem to work right. Actualy I didn't change the the settings of the nic's at all. Allthough for BootP, you need to have subnets declared, like for DHCP, so it can recover the subnetmask for these networks. Regards, Frans. Glenn Wade wrote: title:Customer Engineer tel;fax:++31-23-5560156 tel;home:++31-6-55815283 (mobile) tel;work:++31-23-5560103 note:Dutch HAM radio operator, PE 1 PRB. adr;quoted-printable:;;Xylan TRC Amsterdam=0D=0APlanetenweg 87-89;Hooffdorp;;2132 HL;The Netherlands x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Frans Legdeur end:vcard