On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:49:45PM -0600, Max Hayden Chiz wrote: > Unless I am doing something silly, dhcpd(8) may not be accurate > regarding how the "fixed-address" statement and -L option > inter-operate. > > Yesterday I discovered that when you assign a DHCP client an IP > address using the "fixed-address" command, dhcpd does not create an > entry in dhcpd.leases. As a result, it will not enter the IP address > into the pf table specified by the -L option. This seems to be the > intended behavior, but it isn't documented anywhere. In fact dhcpd(8) > says "[e]ach client is assigned a lease", implying that even clients > using "fixed-address" should be given a lease entry. > > Is this something that should be fixed or am I reading the man pages > wrong (or worse have I messed something up on my end)? > > Max H. Chiz
i have added a note to dhcpd.conf(5), in the "fixed-address" section, to the effect that no lease is generated. although dhcpd(8) still claims that "Each client is assigned a lease", it is still generally true, and i do not want to bog the documentation down in correctness. jmc
