topic Re: BOOTP lease question in Operating System - HP-UX

BOOTP lease question

Jorge Fabregas — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:34:55 GMT

Hello everyone,

Right now, we have BOOTP configured so that it will give the same ip address to specific MAC addresses.

I'm having this problem. My MAC/ip is hard-coded on BOOTP so there's no problem on my subnet. However, if I visit another floor on the building (which is on another subnet) I can't get an ip lease (since my MAC is already registered for that OTHER subnet).

Having said that, is it possible to provide a lease to machines (in other subnet other than their usual)? We would like to accomplish this...giving a lease with an 8 hour expiration to whoever visits another subnet (or a consultant coming from outside). The problem seems to be that...if your MAC is already registered in a given subnet, the dhcpd won't give you a lease in OTHER subnet.

Thanks,
JOrge

Re: BOOTP lease question

john kingsley — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:54:54 GMT

I would talk with your network admin. Are you sure your bootp broadcasts are getting through your router. By default, I think the router will filter it, but it should be possible for them to setup a helper on the router to allow bootp to cross subnets. We have done this with xdmcp broadcasts to allow pc clients to see server on different subnets through Exceed's chooser.

Re: BOOTP lease question

Jorge Fabregas — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:28:09 GMT

Thanks. I'll deal with this later.