dhcpd, read into a file for defining ip address

Winanjaya · 02-01-2012, 02:37 AM

I have a file that contained a list of allowed mac addresses and its IP with ";" separator between mac and the IP address (/etc/dhcpd/src_group1)

how to configure dhcpd to look into that file before giving the IP address? ..

any advise would be greatly appreciated..

many thanks in advance

Regards
Winanjaya

theNbomr · 02-01-2012, 12:48 PM

I don't think dhcpd will do that for you, however, it shouldn't be too difficult to transform what you have into a proper dhcpd configuration file. It sounds like you want to assign IPs uniquely keyed to MACs, and the dhcpd config file accommodates this nicely. For example (using ISC DHCP):

Code:

host yourdhcpclientname {
    hardware ethernet   00:e0:66:00:df:f7;
    fixed-address       192.168.0.2;
    next-server         192.168.0.1;
}

Consult the dhcpd docs for full details.

--- rod.