[Gllug] DHCP/Firewalls

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu Aug 23 13:10:05 UTC 2001


On Thursday, 23 Aug 2001, t.clarke wrote:
>Lots of different ways to skin the cat, no doubt, but you could consider
>using 192.168....... addresses for your internal machines, statically
>assigned, and not use DHCP at all.

At the very least, I would never use DHCP for the gateway machine -
I'd run the dhcpd on it (only listening on particular ethernet
interfaces.)

Don't forget to pick a random subnet of 192.168.* and not just 192.168.1/24.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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