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OS X's built-in bootpd actually works fine...
Authored by: daveschroeder on Oct 17, '02 07:10:45PM

It's easy to assign fixed addresses via DHCP using the built-in services on Mac OS X...it's just that they're done in NetInfo rather than a text config file. Look at "man bootpd". You're basically just adding entries to the /machines tree in NetInfo. They each get a property for ethernet address, machine name, and the fixed IP to be assigned; basically the same stuff you put into a text config file. That's it!

(And yes, this does actually work; I use it on a server myself.)



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OS X's built-in bootpd actually works fine...
Authored by: gsgm on Oct 21, '02 10:27:57AM

I installed the files this weekend including the correction for the restart script.

However, when I try to start the daemon, I recieve a message that it was unable to find a socket.

I thought it might have been brickhouse, but I retried it with it turned off with the same result.



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