Hi all.

I'm running a DHCP on Suse 10.1. All is working 100%, except when it assigns IP's it assigns the last available IP in the range, instead of the first one! What am I missing?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

DHCPD.CONF:

option time-servers 10.0.0.1;
option domain-name "mydomain.com";
option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1, 11.0.0.1;
option routers 10.0.0.1;
option ntp-servers 10.0.0.1;
option lpr-servers 10.0.0.1;
option netbios-name-servers 10.0.0.1;
log-facility local7;
# File with key we shall use to securely update zone files
##########################################################
include "/etc/secret.id";
# Our server is authority
#########################
server-identifier Server.mydomain.com;
authoritative ;
# Zone specification
###########################################
zone mydomain.forward { primary 10.0.0.1; key DHCP_UPDATER;}
zone mydomain.reverse { primary 10.0.0.1; key DHCP_UPDATER;}
ignore client-updates;
ddns-domainname "mydomain.com";
ddns-updates on;
ddns-update-style interim;
max-lease-time 172800;
default-lease-time 864000;
# Declaration of network properties ( range ... )
#################################################
subnet 193.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.192 {
#options
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.192;
option domain-name "mydomain.com";
#forward and reverse lookup zones
zone mydomain.com { primary 127.0.0.1; key DHCP_UPDATER; }
zone 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa. { primary 127.0.0.1; key DHCP_UPDATER; }
one-lease-per-client on;
range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.48;
default-lease-time 864000;
max-lease-time 2678400;
}

Why does it make a difference. As long as it's assigning IPs correctly, then it's working.

Cheers.

I've often seen this but as MQMan mentioned I never really cared. Of course you can give it what ever address you would like it to have in dhcpd.conf

Yes it's working fine, but I still need it to start issuing IP's from the start of the range because i'm going to end up with a lot of zones, and will be running scripts on the zone files.

try to give this entry of range in reverse range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.48;
like range 10.0.0.48 10.0.0.2;

then i suppose u r problem would resolove , some times it try to take ips in reverse order

You could, of course, make reservations based on the mac-address for all machines. It sounds strange to do this, but the use of a DHCP server is still a good choise.
I'm not completely sure, but I think the DHCP deamon will choose IP adresses to lease based oan a round-robin algorithm, so that it will appear to be rather random, but I may be mistaken here.
I've never seen a DHCP server that will always use the first address in the pool, then the second and so on.

Hans Poppe
oslo, Norway