DHCP install

[Thomas Dodd]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote:
|  --- Omar Zamora <ozamora at tp.devry.edu> escribió: > I
| want to have DHCP on eth0.  And need help creating
|>a dhcpd.conf file and
|>the lease file.  My static IP address is 10.64.1.10
|
|
| I'm not understood you, you're not giving so much
| information in your mails, but this is what i'm
| thinking about:
| You're in a LAN and the server give IP's using DHCP?
| or you have and static ip, like 10.64.1.10?
| If you've got an static ip, you don't need a DCHP
| configuration to your eth0 interface.

Well, you don't have to use it, but it can be usefull.
DHCP also provides DNS, hostnoame, and several other bits of
information. Getting all that from DHCP can make life easier.

Example, the DNS server changes. with DHCP, all systems get that info
when networking is restarted. With out it, every system has to be
changed to find the new server.

Or the network is changed, giving you a new gateway. Instead of changing
the config file on every system, the admin just changes a setting at the
DHCP server.

I have sever machines that get network config using DHCP, but always get
the same IP address. I think it uses MAC addresses for the mapping, not
sure (I don't manage the DHCP server :).

| However, if you need to get yout IP by DCHP, in the
| redhat-config-network you can configurate the
| nameserver (which will give you your dinamic IP)

I think he's trying to setup the server too, but may be a little
confused about the differences and the terminology.

	-Thomas
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (SunOS)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFANN/2+mwggWqA1pQRAsEbAJwM5IMvqJfRcv+KWdJ7Oj/qA9d7TgCeJ8Ec
HfhoFeOAwr62qGEfdm3CVvo=
=avAt
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----