apokalips

Hello i have a question... i have a DHCP running and i need to make the same DHCP running on a new machine .. with the same settings.. on a newer machine .. so basicly how I'm gonna do that? .. using the same dhcp.conf file to the newer machine?

anomie

Is this a BSD-specific question? Which BSD / version?

It depends on the DHCP server. You might be able to do this by spoofing old machine's MAC address on new machine.

apokalips

to be specific .. i have running freebsd 6.2 with dhcp running on it. I need to make a new box with freebsd 6.2 and make a new dhcp running with the same settings like the older box .. so simply said i need to replace the older box with a newer one .. changes in the new machine will be only the new nic's mac

anomie

First off, by "same settings" I am assuming that includes "same IP address".

You could swap NICs on the boxes and then not have to worry about it.

Or you could add the MAC address of the old box's NIC to the ifconfig parms for the new box's NIC.

See this thread for one example of doing that. I haven't gone to the trouble of testing that, so I hope it works out.

anomie

As for other custom dhcp client-related settings, be sure to copy /etc/dhclient.conf from the old to new box.

Note that unless you've specifically customized that file, it is probably empty!

apokalips

exactly all same settings like on box A i will keep u updated, thanks for help