dhcpcd-discuss

Hi

On Wednesday 27 January 2010 08:58:52 gopi krishna wrote:
> when i configure my server with a fixed ip address in dhcpd.conf as below
> 
> subnet 172.21.151.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   range 172.21.151.66 172.21.151.66;
> 
> }
> host switch {
>   hardware ethernet 00:05:30:02:DB:31;
>   fixed-address 172.21.151.66;
> }
> 
> 
> when i start dhcpd server , it is assigning the ip address to some other
> node in the network.
> is it a expected behavior ?
> if so , some on please tell me how to assign fixed ip address to a client
> from dhcp server such that it wont assign to other clients the same ip
> address.
> i very much need it .

This list is for dhcpcd, the DHCP Client Daemon. Nothing to do with the ISC 
DHCPd server :)

But at a rough guess, I would try and have say 10 IPs in your range instead 
one and the range should NOT include your fixed IPs

Thanks

Roy