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Heritage Series ADSL Bridge/ Router
Host
hostname
host
{
parameters
[
]
declarations
[
]
}
There must be at least one
be served.
statements may also be specified for DHCP clients,
Host
although this is not required unless booting is only enabled for known
hosts. If it is desirable to be able to boot a DHCP or BOOTP client on more
than one subnet with fixed addresses, more than one address may be
specified in the
fixed-address
may be specified. If client-specific boot parameters must change based on
the network to which the client is attached, then multiple
should be used. If a client is to be booted using a fixed address if it's
possible, but should be allocated a dynamic address otherwise, then a
statement must be specified without a
be a name identifying the host. If a
host,
is used. Host declarations are matched to actual DHCP or
hostname
BOOTP clients by matching the
declaration to the one supplied by the client, or, if the
host
or the client does not provide a
parameter in the
hardware
address supplied by the client. BOOTP clients do not normally provide a
r, so the hardware address must be used for all clients
dhcp-client-identifie
that may boot using the BOOTP protocol.
Group
group { [ parameters ] [ declarations ] }
The group statement is used simply to apply one or more parameters to a
group of declarations.
It can be used to group hosts, shared networks, subnets, or even other
groups.
8.4.3 ALLOW and DENY
The
and
statements can be used to control the behaviour of the
allow
deny
DHCP server in response to various sorts of requests.
unknown-clients
allow unknown-clients;
DHCP Server Operation
statement for every BOOTP client that is to
host
parameter, or more than one host statement
fixed-address
option is not specified for the
hostname
dhcp-client-identifier
dhcp-client-identifier
declaration to the network hardware
host
8-7
statements
host
host
clause.
should
hostname
option specified in the
declaration
host
option, by matching the
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