Re: [SLE] Configuring DHCP using YAST
the gui of yast-dhcp configuration doesn't seem to have an option to assign fixed-ip address on specific mac address which leaves me with no option but to hand code the config files. it would have been a lot simpler for not so experienced linux users like me to use the gui rather than hand code the config files. i wonder why this was not present in version 10 when this exact feature is found in sles9.
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wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 10:39 +0100, Nathaniel Bolivar wrote:
is it possible to configure DHCP fixed-address leases using yast that comes with suse linux 10. i'm sure that this is possible in sles9.
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On Wednesday 19 October 2005 09:12 pm, Nathaniel Bolivar wrote:
the gui of yast-dhcp configuration doesn't seem to have an option to assign fixed-ip address on specific mac address which leaves me with no option but to hand code the config files. it would have been a lot simpler for not so experienced linux users like me to use the gui rather than hand code the config files. i wonder why this was not present in version 10 when this exact feature is found in sles9.
I think you're asking Yast to do something that your Router is supposed to do. Yast knows the MAC address.... Your router can hand out a specific address if it is told to do so for a specific MAC address. Yast can't tell the router to hand out a specific IP address from DCHP. Sounds to me like you want to configure your NIC with a static IP address, something Yast can do quite easily.
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:21:59PM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 09:12 pm, Nathaniel Bolivar wrote:
the gui of yast-dhcp configuration doesn't seem to have an option to assign fixed-ip address on specific mac address which leaves me with no option but to hand code the config files. it would have been a lot simpler for not so experienced linux users like me to use the gui rather than hand code the config files. i wonder why this was not present in version 10 when this exact feature is found in sles9.
I think you're asking Yast to do something that your Router is supposed to do. [...] Yast can't tell the router to hand out a specific IP address from DCHP.
Sounds to me like you want to configure your NIC with a static IP address, something Yast can do quite easily.
I understood the OP's question rather differently: I thought he is using a SuSE machine as DHCP *server*, in which case it is a valid task to be able to set up that server to give out fixed IPs to certain MACs (in fact, that's exactly the way our SuSE 9.1 DHCP server is configured). However, the OP is right: YaST seemingly only supports the configuration of dynamic DHCP - if you want to set up static DHCP, you have to do it manually. Cheerio, Thomas
On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:01 am, T. Ribbrock wrote:
I understood the OP's question rather differently: I thought he is using a SuSE machine as DHCP *server*, in which case it is a valid task to be able to set up that server to give out fixed IPs to certain MACs (in fact, that's exactly the way our SuSE 9.1 DHCP server is configured). However, the OP is right: YaST seemingly only supports the configuration of dynamic DHCP - if you want to set up static DHCP, you have to do it manually.
And yet another reason for people to ask clear and concise questions..... That possibility did occur to me but since he didn't make it clear, I had to guess.
i apologize if it wasn't that clear but this is
exactly what i am trying to do. i'm using my suse
linux as a dhcp server and wants to issue static ip
address to specific machines based on mac address. i
wonder if anyone knows if this feature is currently
being considered in the next release of suse or is
there an update on yast that is capable of handling
this. thanks for the reply.
--- "T. Ribbrock"
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 09:12 pm, Nathaniel Bolivar wrote:
the gui of yast-dhcp configuration doesn't seem to have an option to assign fixed-ip address on specific mac address which leaves me with no option but to hand code the config files. it would have been a lot simpler for not so experienced linux users
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:21:59PM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote: like me to use the
gui rather than hand code the config files. i wonder why this was not present in version 10 when this exact feature is found in sles9.
I think you're asking Yast to do something that your Router is supposed to do. [...] Yast can't tell the router to hand out a specific IP address from DCHP.
Sounds to me like you want to configure your NIC with a static IP address, something Yast can do quite easily.
I understood the OP's question rather differently: I thought he is using a SuSE machine as DHCP *server*, in which case it is a valid task to be able to set up that server to give out fixed IPs to certain MACs (in fact, that's exactly the way our SuSE 9.1 DHCP server is configured). However, the OP is right: YaST seemingly only supports the configuration of dynamic DHCP - if you want to set up static DHCP, you have to do it manually.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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Bruce Marshall
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