On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Phil Savoie wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Running RHEL4 and wish to setup dhcpd. I have it runing ok but what I want to
> do is set it up so that it doesn't just give away IP addresses freely. What
> I want to do is only allow the hosts as specified in the host declaration to
> get IP addresses. Because I only have a couple hosts to look after, I am
> assigning IP's based on mac's; like so:
>
> host shaka {
>     hardware ethernet 00:48:54:8B:C5:38;
>     option host-name "shaka";
>     fixed-address 192.168.1.4;
> }
>
> Now I have 10 such entries in the dhcpd.conf file. If an unknown laptop/pc
> plugs into the network I don't want the server to give out an address but
> right now it does.
>
> How do I stop from going so?

Remove any range statements from the subnet declaration(s) in your
dhcpd.conf.

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