Networking :: DHCP Script - Assigning Multiple IP Addresses By Mac?

Sep 6, 2010

Ive been trying to give certain clients an IP adres by mac adress. For this I use the folowing code:

host apex {
hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
fixed-address 192.168.250.100;
}

This works perfectly, however when I try to add a second client this way it doesnt. I tried to add the above code multiple times as a whole (2 times the above code) but that doesnt work. I also tried to just add more lines under host apex but this also doesnt work.

So my question is: How do I add more of this mac related IP adress assignments in the dhcp.conf?

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I am using Ubuntu Server and would like to recieve an email once a day listing mac address's that have requested an ip address that are not in my list of known mac address's.

lookup=`grep $mac /root/dhcp.macs`

#This does not work as the first entry mac1 will be okay but mac2 and mac3 will not

#It will try to use mac2 as the file to look in which won't exist

#I need to make it loop through for each line of the variable and add that to the lookup value diff $mac $lookup

#I think this should differentiate known from unknown if i can get a lookup value

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A quick rundown of my equipment and plan for this particular machine.

SOYO P4I845PEISA Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz Processor
512MB DDR333 RAM
ATI Radeon 8500 128mb AGP Video Card
Using onboard AC'97 Audio and Davicom NIC
Linksys BEFSR81 Wired Router

I am setting up a multiboot system with several OS's, multiple versions of Windows & several Linux distros. The main point of it all is just to have a system where I can load up a given version of Windows or Distro of Linux if I need to test something or show someone how something works.

The Problem:
5 versions of Windows installed, all hardware configured and functioning properly (including NIC) All Windows versions obtain DHCP IP addy with no problems.

Installed Red Hat Linux 9 (first of my linux distros) and it autoconfigured all of my hardware and has no problem getting an IP address.

Installed Fedora 8 and it could not obtain an IP address. I fiddled around with the network settings changing this and that, covered all of the options, and it had no effect. By this time I was irritated, so I just formatted and reinstalled the whole thing, which had no effect and resulted in the same problem. I decided to try it again, this time turning off my sound card and nic for the initial installation. After the initial install, I turned on the sound card and booted up to install it, then restarted, turning on the nic to install it. Fedora installed them both, and managed to get an IP address from my router.

I looked at the ifcfg-eth0 file and the only thing that was different from the previous installs was that a line reading "type=ethernet" (I believe thats what it said) was not there in the working install and had been before.

Puzzling and irritating, but Fedora was now working so I moved to the next distro on my list.

openSUSE 11.0
First install I tried the same thing I did with Fedora (turning off the NIC which did not work like it did in Fedora)
Second install, left all of my hardware enabled, and made it to the part where it asks to verify your internet connection. I clicked Test, and got this error:

Opening of Connection
eth0 device: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip Compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 40) DHCP Client is already running on eth0

I finished the install, and then got on another machine and I searched the net for this error, but could find nothing that specifically applied to my problem. I played around with the network settings, tried a couple of things that I had come across in my search (changed between tulip and dmfe, checked the box for "Request Broadcast Response", ran "service network restart" in Terminal) none of these had any effect.

The most irritating thing about this is that RHL9 had no problem with this whatsoever and it is badly dated, and the much newer distros are choking on it.

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Code:
###############################################################################
# Amino Communications Sample dhcpd.conf file #

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My Linux gateway has multiple address to internet:
eth0 = 76.148.200.3
eth0:0 = 76.148.200.4
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and it's own gateway which is 76.148.200.2 (probably not relevant) and I also have which is not internet, but local:
eth0:2 = 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

They all work fine and tested. Now I am sharing the internet through eth0 (76.148.200.3) to 192.168.0.1/24 and that's working fine. The script I use to do that is here...

Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
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I first saw the effects of this when during booting Ubuntu Server, the screen showed a message about OpenSSH daemon being restarted ... several times a few seconds apart each. At the time I didn't know what was causing that, but didn't worry because it ultimately was running when I needed it.

But now that I am deploying these servers for specific duty with many IP addresses per system (per network interface), the symptoms are becoming serious, and I need a solution.

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2. It appears to be disrupting some daemons sometimes. Occaisionally, some daemon just ends up being hung somewhere, or dies. Too many restarts.

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I tried to attach the /etc/network/interfaces file, but I don't know if it worked because I see no confirmations about it. if it didn't attach and you need to see it, say so, and I'll just paste it in a followup.

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Host OS Windows 7

I have 3 IP addresses set up in on my Fedora 12 installation:
Directory: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
ifcfg-eth0 -> 192.168.0.170
ifcfg-eth0:0 -> 192.168.0.171
ifcfg-eth0:1 -> 192.168.0.172

Hostname is configured to host associated with 192.168.0.170 in /etc/hosts

When I reboot and execute
# ifconfig

eth0 is associated with the 172 address and the other addresses are not active. After I run
# service network restart

All of the addresses are active and associated with the correct interfaces. Content of my ifcfg files below:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 :
Code:
# Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=08:00:27:0A:9D:24
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.0.170
PREFIX=24
DNS1=192.168.0.1
NAME="System eth0"
UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 :

Code:
# Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0:0
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.0.171
PREFIX=24
DNS1=192.168.0.1
NAME="System eth0"
UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
ONPARENT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
ONBOOT=yes
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 :

Code:
# Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0:1
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.0.172
PREFIX=24
DNS1=192.168.0.1
NAME="System eth0:1"
UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
ONPARENT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
ONBOOT=yes
After booting:

Code:
# ifconfig

eth0 ....

Restart network:
Code:
# service network restart
. . .
# ifconfig

eth0 ....

eth0:0 ....

eth0:1 ....

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Addresses (I heard that there is a program named "Postal" that may help in determing this).

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Ubuntu Networking :: DHCP Server No Longer Responses To DHCP Requests - Can't Ping Gateway

Oct 22, 2010

Back in April I set up a Ubuntu DHCP server and a multiple VLAN network [URL] to migrate our various servers, workstations, etc off the 192.168.1.1 /24 network that everything was on because we where running out of address space. I built out the new network and everything worked great except our AD server would never get an IP address from the DHCP server (static reservation) and even if I set the IP statically on the AD server it couldn't ping the gateway and noone could log in. After several attempts to resolve this, including bringing in outside help, we where never able to figure out what the problem was.

Now 6 months later I have time to revisit the issue without effecting the live network. I used Acronis and imaged the AD server last Friday, cloned it on to another box with the same hardware, and put it up on the new network that's been sitting unused for the last 6 months. Today when I statically set the IP on the AD server (which is what I want) it connects and I can ping it's gateway 192.168.1.1 and all the way across vlans to a test sales agent workstation at 192.168.8.xxx on vlan 800 but only if I statically assign the agents station an IP address. When I try to get an IP address via DHCP it fails as destination unreachable. Nothing has changed in the last 6 months on the DHCP server but now it for some reason can't ping its default gateway 192.168.1.1. All of the config files are the same as they where left from the post linked above aside from the vlan id's used where changed from 1's to 100's (i.e. vlan 3 is now vlan 300) /etc/network/interfaces

Code:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto vlan100
iface vlan100 inet static

[code]....

why it can't reach the gateway, when I do a tcpdump I can see the DHCP requests come in on eth0 but the server never responds and I'm pretty sure its because it isn't "seeing" them since it thinks there isn't a network connection but I don't know how to trouble shoot to find out where the problem lies.

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