DHCP server setup - which RPM

[Tokunbo]

hello guys,

Pls, i want to setup my FC4 as a DHCP server to serve the other computers in my LAN, and act as my gateway for my other 4 PCs.

I have 2 NICs on it.

I did a

service dhcpd status

and i got

dhcpd: unrecognized service.

I did

rpm -q dhcpd

and i got

package is not installed

so i guess dhcpd is not installed on my PC.

I have a static IP assigned to my FC4 and I can connect to the internet through it.

I can see the following files at
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...s/Fedora/RPMS/

dhclient-3.0.2-12.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 13:16 234K
dhcp-3.0.2-12.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 13:16 591K
dhcp-devel-3.0.2-12.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 13:16 113K
dhcpv6-0.10-13.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 15:10 205K
dhcpv6_client-0.10-13.i386.rpm 20-May-2005 15:10 70K

QUESTION:
1. Which of the above files am I to download so that I can configure my FC4 as a DHCP server?.

Can you assist with a sample config file, so that I do not mess up my PC.

thanks
Toks [/quote][/quote]

[Roxoff]

You want dhcp-3.0.2-12

The 'v6' ones are for IPV6, dhcp-devel is only needed if you want to build apps or write your own that interface to dhcp, and dhclient is needed if you want your computer to use dhcp to have it's network address allocated to it.

[Tokunbo]

hi,

ive downloaded and installed dhcp-3.0.2-24 FC4 using the "yum install".

The problem im having now is to configure it. As I said, i have 2NICs and one of them eth0 is configured with a static IP to connect to the web. The other one eth1 is the one i want to use for my LAN.

Im using the sample dhcpd.conf file at linuxhomenetworking.com, but anytime i want to start dhcpd, i get an error "failed".

Am i supposed to add somethings using the GUI?

heres my dhcpd.conf file:
ddns-update-style interim
ignore client-updates


subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
# The range of IP addresses the server
# will issue to DHCP enabled PC clients
# booting up on the network
range 192.168.1.201 192.168.1.220;

# Set the amount of time in seconds that
# a client may keep the IP address
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 86400;

# Set the default gateway to be used by
# the PC clients
option routers 192.168.1.1;

# Don't forward DHCP requests from this
# NIC interface to any other NIC
# interfaces

option ip-forwarding off;

# Set the broadcast address and subnet mask
# to be used by the DHCP clients

option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

# Set the DNS server to be used by the
# DHCP clients
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.100;

# Set the NTP server to be used by the
# DHCP clients

option nntp-server 192.168.1.100;
}
}


Toks

[Roxoff]

I'm no expert at this, I have my smoothwall box to run my DHCP at home, but I think you need to tell it which interface(s) to service requests over. There must be an optional config statement you can add to tell it to use eth1. Is there anything about this in the manpage for dhcpd.conf? I dont have it installed on my server, so I cant read the manpage easily.