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4.1.7 DHCP Service (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
An ISC-DHCP-Server service (
) is recommended to provide DHCP network configuration to IPU-M2000s.
It can be installed from the Ubuntu or CentOS public repositories.
Table 4.8: DHCP service
Name
Type
User
Group
Access
Description
/etc/dhcp/
folder
root
dhcpd
0755
DHCP related files
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.d/
folder
root
dhcpd
0755
IPU-M2000 network configu-
ration files
Ubuntu:
/etc/default/isc-
dhcp-server
file
root
root
0644
Network
interfaces
which
DHCP will use
CentOS: /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd
file
root
root
0644
Network
interfaces
which
DHCP will use
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.d/vlan-
11.conf
file
root
dhcpd
0644
Mapping between desired IPs
and IPU-M2000 100GbE RNIC
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.d/vlan-
13.conf
file
root
dhcpd
0644
Mapping between desired IPs
and IPU-M2000 1GbE BASE-T
interfaces
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.d/vlan-
99.conf
file
root
dhcpd
0644
Mapping between desired IPs
and management 1GbE BASE-
T interfaces MAC addresses
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
file
root
dhcpd
0644
Main DHCP server configura-
tion file
DHCP file templates
• Ubuntu: /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server
INTERFACES=”eno3 enp59s0f1”
• CentOS: /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd
DHCPDARGS="em4 p1p2
• /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.d/vlan-11.conf (file)
#Example of content. Add all RNICs below using this format
#
#host ipum1mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.1;}
#host ipum2mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.2;}
#host ipum3mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.3;}
#host ipum4mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.4;}
#host ipum5mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.5;}
#host ipum6mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.6;}
#host ipum7mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.7;}
#host ipum8mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.8;}
#host ipum9mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.9;}
#host ipum10mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.10;}
#host ipum11mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.11;}
#host ipum12mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.12;}
#host ipum13mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.13;}
#host ipum14mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.14;}
#host ipum15mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.15;}
#host ipum16mx {
hardware ethernet aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff;
fixed-address 10.1.5.16;}
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