Gentoo as DHCP server?

Rain Designs · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:04 pm Post subject: Gentoo as DHCP server?

I am running a gaming server. This is what I tried:

Gentoo Box -> switch ->client machines

when I tried to connect to the gentoo box in the game, it couldn't find the server. I believe I have to set Gentoo up as a DHCP server. The client machines had 169 ip's. How can I set up Gentoo to run as a DHCP server? Is a DHCP server the right thing for me?

Thanks in advance,

Rain
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brain · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: Gentoo as DHCP server?

Rain Designs · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:20 pm Post subject:

I am being a little confusing. I want to run a LAN gaming server. I tried just plugging everything into the switch, but the clients couldn't find my server. My server also didn't have an ip address. Well it was probably 127.0.0.1, anyway.

I just want to know how I can set up my network/server so that clients can connect to the server. I would assume that setting up dhcp on my server would solve this problem.

I hope that clears things up

Thanks for the quick response!

-Rain
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mastah · n00b Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 19 Location: .nl

Configure your server and all clients manual.
Set your server's ip to 192.168.0.1 and the other clients to 192.168.0.2 ,3 ,4 ,5 etc.. . Set the gateway on the clients to 192.168.0.1 (your server) and put them on the same subnet mask ( 255.255.255.0 ). should work.
Best way 'imo' in this case instead of setting up a dhcp server, assuming that this is just a temporary setup for lan-party or something ?

(unless you got many clients)
169.0 ip-range = default microsoft settings

Good luck.

rizzo · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:55 pm Post subject:

Yes for DHCP your server needs to have an IP,and have that IP range defined inthe dhcp.conf file. 127.0.0.1 will not work, that is just a localhost IP. And yes the 169.x.x.x is some Microsoft thing that DHCP clients assign themselves when they can't find a DHCP server.

Rain Designs · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2002 9:15 pm Post subject:

that was exactly what I was looking for mastha, Thanks! It is just for a lan party.

Thanks for the help,

-Rain

Sorry for the double post

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mastah · n00b Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 19 Location: .nl

heh np

i guess you were having problems too reaching the forum :?:

Rain Designs · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 5:31 pm Post subject:

yeah for some reason I couldn't view the forums. I'm not sure why.

But thats why I had the double post.
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