[sclug] DHCP gateways

[Jason Rivers]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Stuart Ward <stuart.ward at bcs.org> wrote:

> Yes you can. You need to configure the file /etc/dhcp.conf with 2
> seperate subnet clauses and then specify the machines in each group
> with Group clauses. usually you do this on the MAC address of the
> machine. Though there are lots of other options.
>
> A tip specify an "option netbios-name-servers <ip-address>" of your
> samber server so that the poor windoze clients can network and find
> shares without haveing to do broadcasts to find the name server.
>
> Have a look through man dhcp.conf
>
> Stuart
>




> Thanks Stuart,
>
> I actually manged to do it by adding the line "option routers 10.0.38.6;
> to the host section like this:
>
> # Stephen Laptop
>     host stephenlaptop.dyalog.bramley {
>       option routers 10.0.38.6;
>       hardware ethernet 00:0e:7b:69:6e:dd;
>       fixed-address 10.0.38.60;
>     }
>
> this seems to have fixed it, and now he can use the VPN (yay)
>
> so I've not needed to use a seperate subnet for it now - though at
> somepoint I will be using a wider subnet, but that's all for later.
>
> Jason.
>