Dynamic Host Configuration protocol (DHCP): This server is very useful if you are running a company with multiple clients where it becomes hard to manually assign the IP address manually so you redirect the client to take the IP from the server which is done using a DHCP server.
Prerequisites:
Make sure the required packge is installed in the machine.
# rpm -qa | grep dhcp
dhcp-4.1.1-31.P1.el6.i686
dhcp-common-4.1.1-31.P1.el6.i686
If the packages are not installed then follow these command for installation and configuration of the same
# yum -y install dhcp
Once the package is installed
# cd /etc/dhcp/
# vi dhcpd.conf
option domain-name "example.com";
option domain-name-servers server.example.com;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
authoritative;
subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range dynamic-bootp 10.10.10.220 10.10.10.230;
option broadcast-address 10.10.10.255;
option routers 10.10.10.235;
(Use these lines if you want to assign a fix IP to a particular client, mention client's IP with his/her MAC Address)
host ns {
hardware ethernet 08:00:07:26:c0:a5;
fixed-address 10.10.10.223;
}
}
Just save and restart your dhcp server services
# service dhcpd restart
Go to the client machine and make the following changes in ifcfg-eth0 file
# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:0c:29:6d:55:dd
NM_CONTROLLED=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPV6INIT=no
Restart your network services
# service network restart
and check the new IP of the your client machine
# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:6D:55:DD
inet addr:10.10.10.221 Bcast:10.10.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe6d:55dd/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19730475 errors:81 dropped:12 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6731135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2544186474 (2.3 GiB) TX bytes:2956734996 (2.7 GiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
As you can see the new IP assigned to this machine as assigned by my DHCP server
If you face any issues in doing the same kindly leave back your comments with the error.
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