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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Wide DHCP question
Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:45:06 GMT
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In article <33311D1D.41C67EA6@midfirst.com>,
	Collin Douglas <cdouglas@midfirst.com> writes:
> I've been playing with WIDE-DHCP server 1.3 running on FreeBSD 2.17 and
> was wondering if there's a way to specify a range of assignable IP
> addresses or am I going to have to have a seperate line for each one.
> 
> We are replacing a DHCP server running on a Novell box with one of
> FreeBSD due to reliability problems with the Novell DHCP.  The Novell
> box however, does have to feature of allowing you to specify a range of
> valid IP addresses (ie start=189.5.128.41 end=189.5.254.254).
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

I havn't figured out how to do this under wide-dhcp, but I believe
isc-dhcp can do it.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
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