On Tuesday 29 January 2002 22:40, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 07:38:38PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > I have my network set up to use dhcp. The clients can > > connect, ping, ssh, etc. to the server, but they can't > > connect beyond my gateway. The only part of my static > > network setup that isn't present in my dynamic setup is the > > default gateway. > > How can the dhcp server tell the client which default > > gateway to use? Or is this something I need to somehow put > > in my client configuration? [...] > Gateway seemes to be provided through DHCP. > > But you may add it by (I think, but never tried): > > option routers 192.33.137.250;
This is how I do it. Add the above line in /etc/dhcpd.conf and you should be set. You may also consider adding the following line if your running dns as well: option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.2; which is also covered in the man page below. > According to "man dhcp-optons" > > option routers ip-address [, ip-address... ]; > > The routers option specifies a list of IP addresses for > routers on the client's subnet. Routers should be > listed in order of preference. > > Cherrs :)
