Static IPs on Tiger and other DHCP bits

[wjlyerly]

I’m setting up a new Tiger server and trying to migrate my DHCP server from a linux box (dhcpd). Some things don’t seem well document anywhere (apple’s pdfs, man pages) or maybe its just that bootpd is weird.

I have one subnet on en0 with a small pool of dynamic address x.x.x.8 through x.x.x.13. On the subnet page, I’ve filled in LDAP settings. I have many static IPs distributed via DHCP on the same subnet, including my powerbook, x.x.x.36. The powerbook does not get passed the LDAP settings via DHCP. If I manually configure LDAP on the pb, all is good. It doesn’t seem obvious in ServerAdmin how to associate the extended settings (LDAP, WINS) with static IPS. In fact, the pb didn’t seem to get the correct DNS entries either until I changed the system DNS on the Xserve, as though it were ignore the DNS settings under DHCP in ServerAdmin and just passing on system settings for the static IPs.

So, what’s up with that?

I’ve verified that the dhcp_ldap_url is correct in netinfo:/config/dhcp/subnets/

It also appears that the static DHCP clients are getting infinite leases (lease time of -1 seconds) which some of the linux clients don’t seem to like.

I’m wondering if I should ditch the GUI/bootp combo since its being quite strange and go with a dhcpd installation and manage by hand.

jay

[wjlyerly]

No replies… hmmmm.

Anyway, I did ditch the GUI managed bootp for dhcpd (which happily compiles with gcc 3.3 but not gcc 4). Everything is back to working, but being served from the Xserve and not the old linux box. I find it odd that dhcpd can hand out LDAP over dhpc much better than bootp that Apple ships.

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