Fedora 11 dhcp server setup

The examples in this section use the public Fedora mirrors as the package source. For faster installations, installing to many systems, or more isolated environments, you may wish to maintain a local repository. For more complex environments, Fedora offers the cobbler installation server. Tasks like managing kickstart configurations, coordinating repositories, maintaining dns records, dhcp servers, and even puppet manifests are effectively automated by cobbler.

While levaraging all of the features provided by cobbler can be relatively simple, the full functionality of this powerful tool is too broad to be documented in this guide. Alternatively, you may also be interested in Foreman. Want to help? Learn how to contribute to Fedora Docs. Edit this Page. Installing the tftp server Installing the tftp server.

Providing and configuring bootloaders for PXE clients Getting the bootloader files. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter criccio Start date Jul 10, Joined Mar 26, Messages 13, I checked almost every available package during the install and DHCP was in there.

Is there a built in GUI to get started? I'm familiar with setting it up in Server , but Linux is a bit new. SpaceHonkey Gawd. This example assigns IP addresses in the range Range parameter default-lease-time ; max-lease-time ; option subnet-mask To assign an IP address to a client based on the MAC address of the network interface card, use the hardware ethernet parameter within a host declaration.

As demonstrated in Example Note that the optional parameter host-name can also be used to assign a host name to the client. All subnets that share the same physical network should be declared within a shared-network declaration as shown in Example Parameters within the shared-network , but outside the enclosed subnet declarations, are considered to be global parameters.

The name of the shared-network must be a descriptive title for the network, such as using the title 'test-lab' to describe all the subnets in a test lab environment. For example, shared networks, subnets, and hosts can be grouped. The sample configuration file provided can be used as a starting point and custom configuration options can be added to it. To copy it to the proper location, use the following command:. For a complete list of option statements and what they do, refer to the dhcp-options man page.