A tutorial describing how to configure a Cisco router as a DHCP server, I’ll cover DHCP reservation and excluding of IP addresses as well. A DHCP server dynamically assigns IP addresses to hosts in a network, by creating DHCP reservations we can statically assign an IP address to a host based on its MAC address. IP address exclusion prevents conflicts among devices i certain hosts are manually assigned IP addresses. When configuring DHCP reservation it should be done differently for Windows DHCP clients and Linux DHCP clients because both of them make DHCP requests differently.Continue Reading…
Setup a DHCP server on Linux
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a service running on port number 67 which assigns IP addresses to computers in a network. Setting up a DHCP server requires you to specify a range of IP addresses which will be assigned to the computers on the network, a gateway address which is the address of the router or modem and a DNS server address which will be used to resolve hostnames. Doing this in Linux is a simple matter of installing an application and editing a .conf file.Continue Reading…
