DHCP Service

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) provides a way to automate and manage the network configurations of all ORBIT attached devices. It has two main functions:

1.) Assigning networking (IP) configuration 2.) Support for PXE booting

Configuration

authoritative;
use-host-decl-names on;
ping-check false;
ping-timeout 0;
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 86400;

subnet 10.11.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
        range  10.11.50.100 10.11.50.255;
        option routers 10.11.0.1;
        option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.9;
        option domain-name "sb1.orbit-lab.org";
        option log-servers 10.11.0.10;
        option ntp-servers 10.11.0.10;
        ddns-updates off;
        ddns-domainname "sb1.orbit-lab.org";
        next-server 10.11.0.40;

        host consolec.sb1.orbit-lab.org {hardware ethernet 00:40:63:D4:09:62; fixed-address consolec.sb1.orbit-lab.org;}
        host repository2.sb1.orbit-lab.org {hardware ethernet 00:04:23:9E:DF:58; fixed-address repository2.sb1.orbit-lab.org;}
        host node1-1.sb1.orbit-lab.org {hardware ethernet 00:0f:ea:4A:8B:5F; fixed-address node1-1.sb1.orbit-lab.org;}
        host node1-2.sb1.orbit-lab.org {hardware ethernet 00:0F:EA:84:C8:01; fixed-address node1-2.sb1.orbit-lab.org;}
}

PXE Support

The PXE protocol uses a very complex set of extensions to DHCP and/or BOOTP but most of the newer implementations seem to be able to boot with standard DHCP configuration.

A DHCP configuration for PXE support is:

        allow booting;
        allow bootp;

	# Standard DHCP configuration directives...

	# Needed for PXE
	filename "/pxelinux.bin";
        option option-150 code 150 = text;
          
        # tftp server
        next-server 10.11.0.40;