It was really quite easy. I have no idea why I didn't do it sooner. Well,
I know why. If you have a simple network with a few computers it is really
not needed. As soon as you have more thasn a handfull of machines or you
start trying to swap a PC between 2 or more networks, it becomes
essential!
I think all I did was install the dhcpd package, and read the dhcpd.conf
man page. It comes with a sample dhcpd.conf file which really
helps. Really you just have to understand a few basic concepts - It's job
is to listen for requests, and assign an IP (from some range), as well as
all the other stuff you would normally configure yourself like the domain
name, gateway, netmask etc. And all you do is describe these things in
dhcp.conf. Like everything else you can get pretty fancy if you want, but
you don't have to.
On the client side the setup is as simple as setting the "get my IP
dynamically" checkbox.
<OT>
In windows you can run 'winipcfg' to release and renew the lease at will
for testing so you don't have to keep rebooting :) It's also very handy if
you want to switch a running machine between two networks like I have been
doing lately - release the lease, unplug from one hub, plug into other,
renew lease - wallah - completely configured on other (dhcp based network)
hth
charles
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> I alway thought that I would get around to setting up DHCP to protect
> myself from other people but now I am ready to set it up to protect me
> from myself :)
>
> Anyway, what are the docs you found most helpful?
> Charles Galpin wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I recently started using dhcp. It's great.
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