[Cialug] DHCP Server: how can a client get the same IP after restart?

[n.d]

correct me if i'm wrong guys, but i believe nathan wants to reserve IP 
addresses. at least this is what i would call it. i don't do that so 
yea. enjoy.


Nathan C. Smith wrote:

>Recently I switched to using the Linux DHCP server on redhat 9 distribution
>instead of my firewall.  I really like being able to specify IP addresses by
>MAC address.  However, It seems with other DHCP implementations the server
>would reserve the address even when the machine was off any the machine
>could get the address again when it started up.
>
>Is this a client option, or do I just need to lengthen my DHCP leases or set
>some other option?
>
>These are my lease settings:
>        default-lease-time            21600;
>        max-lease-time                21600;
>
>I believe that makes it 6 hours.  But I have machines that get a new address
>each time they boot and it is a little annoying.  Does the client have to be
>able to request the old lease again somehow?
>
>For convenience sake I would just like to reboot a machine and have it get
>the same dynamically assigned address until I can assign a permanent or
>static one.
>
>
>-Nate
>
>Nathan Smith  McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.  515.288.3667  
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