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"I needed help urgently with my office network.
I called up Baraka and they solved the issue in no time at all. "
            -Mike Kendrick.


Easy Solutions at Baraka

 

ontact Details:
Head office
6-353 Broadway
Shawinigan Que.
Canada G9N-1M2
(819) 531-2340

 

Add Hosts 

Host Description: Any name that describes the host.
Host Name: The host declaration provides a scope in which to provide configuration information about a specific client, and also provides a way to assign a client a fixed address. The host declaration provides a way for the DHCP server to identify a DHCP or BOOTP client, and also a way to assign the client a static IP address.
Host Assigned To: a
Fix IP Address: The fixed-address declaration is used to assign one or more fixed IP addresses to a client. If more than one address is supplied, then when the client boots, it will be assigned the address that corresponds to the network on which it is booting. If none of the addresses in the fixed-address statement are valid for the network to which the client is connected, that client will not match the host declaration containing that fixed-address declaration. 
Lease Time: Time should be the minimum length in seconds that will be assigned to a lease.
Max Lease Time: Time should be the maximum length in seconds that will be assigned to a lease. The only exception to this is that Dynamic BOOTP lease lengths, which are not specified by the client, are not limited by this maximum.
Hardware Address: In order for a client to be recognized, its network hardware address must be declared. Hardware-type must be the name of a physical hardware interface type. Currently, only the ethernet and token-ring types are recognized, although support for a fddi hardware type (and others) would also be desirable. The hardware-address should be a set of hexadecimal octets (numbers from 0 through ff) separated by colons.
Boot File Name: If selected, configuration options will be read in the Bootp file that can be created within the global options window.
Lease Length: used to set the length of leases dynamically assigned to BOOTP clients. At some sites, it may be possible to assume that a lease is no longer in use if its holder has not used BOOTP or DHCP to get its address within a certain time period. The period is specified in length as a number of seconds. If a client reboots using BOOTP during the timeout period, the lease duration is reset to length, so a BOOTP client that boots frequently enough will never lose its lease. Needless to say, this parameter should be adjusted with extreme caution. ie: 604800 = 7 days.
Lease End: sets the ending time for all leases assigned dynamically to BOOTP clients. Because BOOTP clients do not have any way of renewing leases, and don't know that their leases could expire, by default dhcpd assigns infinite leases to all BOOTP clients. However, it may make sense in some situations to set a cutoff date for all BOOTP leases for example, the end of a school term, or the time at night when a facility is closed and all machines are required to be powered off. Date should be the date on which all assigned BOOTP leases will end. The date is specified in the form: W YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS W is the day of the week expressed as a number from zero (Sunday) to six (Saturday). YYYY is the year, including the century. MM is the month expressed as a number from 1 to 12. DD is the day of the month, counting from 1. HH is the hour, from zero to 23. MM is the minute and SS is the second. The time is always in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), not local time.

Options

Domain Name: This option specifies the domain name that client should use when resolving hostnames via the Domain Name System.
Gateway
: The gateway option specifies a list of IP addresses for gateways on the client's subnet. Gateways should be listed in order of preference
Subnet Mask: The subnet mask option specifies the client's subnet mask. If no subnet mask option is provided anywhere in scope, as a last resort Dhcpd will use the subnet mask from the subnet declaration for the network on which an address is being assigned. However, any subnet-mask option declaration that is in scope for the address being assigned will override the subnet mask specified in the subnet declaration.
Broadcast Address: This option specifies the broadcast address in use on the client's subnet.
Static Route: This option specifies a list of static routes that the client should install in its routing cache. If multiple routes to the same destination are specified, they are listed in descending order of priority.
The routes consist of a list of IP address pairs. The first address is the destination address, and the second address is the router for the destination.
The default route (0.0.0.0) is an illegal destination for a static route. To specify the default route, use the Gateway option.
Name Server: The server-name statement specifies the name of the boot server name to use. This is also not used by the standard client configuration script.
DNS Server: The domain-name-servers option specifies a list of Domain Name System available to the client. Servers should be listed in order of preference.
Time Server: The time-server option specifies a list of time servers available to the client. Servers should be listed in order of preference.
NIS Domain: This option specifies the name of the client's NIS (Sun Network Information Services) domain. The domain is formatted as a character string consisting of characters from the NVT ASCII character set.
NIS Server: This option specifies a list of IP addresses indicating NIS servers available to the client. Servers should be listed in order of preference.

Netbios 

NetBios server: The NetBIOS name server (NBNS) option specifies a list of name servers listed in order of preference. NetBIOS Name Service is currently more commonly referred to as WINS.
Netbios Scope: The NetBIOS scope identifier is an optional string of characters that identify different logical NetBIOS networks that run on the same physical TCP/IP network.
In most configurations the NetBIOS scope identifier does not need to be changed. The simplest way to configure NetBIOS is to use a single logical network. If you think that you need to use the scope identifier, make sure you fully understand the implications of changing it before doing anything. If you do change the identifier, you should list all the NetBIOS nodes in your network and keep a record of which scope identifier is assigned to which node.
Keeping track of all the scope identifiers in a NetBIOS network can be complicated and time consuming. Avoid using this feature unless you have a very specific need for it.
Before setting the value of the scope identifier, check its value on the other machines in the network. If you have MS-DOS or OS/2 workstations on the network, the NetBIOS scope identifier should be set to NULL on all machines on the network. Many implementations of NetBIOS for TCP/IP allow you to use only the NULL scope identifier. If you have any other AFPS-compatible machines on the network, check their documentation for restrictions.
Netbios node type
: The NetBIOS node type option allows NetBIOS over TCP/IP clients which are configurable to be configured as described in RFC 1001/1002. The value is specified as a single octet which identifies the client type.

Possible node types are:

1
B-node: Broadcast - no WINS
2
P-node: Peer - WINS only.
4
M-node: Mixed - broadcast, then WINS
8
H-node: Hybrid - WINS, then broadcast

 

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