Topic: dhcp assigned "static" addresses

[Dan]

Hi,
I've heard that its possible to have a dhcp server allocate the same ip address to a client every time, based the client machine's  mac address.  I think the way to do it is via the "host haagen " command in the dhcpd.conf file. Can anyone help me to re-configure my dhcpd.conf  templates to do this?

I'd like to retain central control over my network and I need several machines to have the same I.P addresses all the time. I'd prefer these machines to get their network configuration from the dhcp server rather than just assigning them a static I.P address.

Thanks for any help offered.
Dan

[Dan Brown]

Wouldn't you know, the manual has a section on exactly this question?

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/5.1/admin-hostnames.html#admin-hostnames-dhcp

[Dan]

Thanks Dan,
I must be going blind in my 'old' age.  I did 'RT*M' but I was looking in the wrong place (as usual...).

Problem solved I think. ( I've yet to try it as I'm writing this from a different system.)

Dan