[Dibbler] Assigning fixed addresses

Tomasz Mrugalski thomson at klub.com.pl
Wed Nov 28 00:16:11 CET 2007


On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 somebody known as David Antos wrote:

> I was unsuccessful trying to configure Dibbler server to suit the following
> situation.
>
> I have a network with a set of fixed addresses (they are included in the
> DNS, and I cannot use dynamic DNS because of faculty policy). I need the
> addresses to be assigned according to machine DUIDs. Moreover, I have a set
> of notebooks that shall get addresses from a pool.
>
> I configured a list of separate classes as follows:
> class {
>  accept-only <machine DUID>
>  pool <the address assigned to the DUID>
> }
>
> and the "freely assigned" pool as a separate class. But this doesn't work
> as expected. Is there a way to configure Dibbler for this situation?
Can you send your server.conf file? You didn't provide much information, 
but maybe you have put the "freely assigned" pool BEFORE the reserved 
pools?

On the other hand, I haven't used this feature for quite some time
and it may be broken.

> Thanks,
> D. Antos
>
> P.S.: It would also be nice to allow more pools in classes.
Yes, I know. But I don't have time to code it. :(

Sorry for replying with such delay - I was on vacation.

Best regards,
Tomek Mrugalski




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