<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:lang="ca" xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp"> <info> <title xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp-ti1">Configura DHCP</title> <subtitle>drakwizard dhcp</subtitle> </info> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp-im1" fileref="drakwizard_dhcp.png" revision="1" align="center" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para><note> <para>This tool is broken in Mageia 4 because of new naming scheme for the Net interfaces</para> </note></para> <para>This tool<footnote> <para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing <emphasis role="bold">drakwizard dhcp</emphasis> as root.</para> </footnote> can help you to set up a <acronym>DHCP</acronym> server. It is a component of drakwizard which should be installed before you can access to it.</para> <section> <title>What is DHCP?</title> <para>The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (<acronym>DHCP</acronym>) is a standardized networking protocol used on IP networks that dynamically configures IP addresses and other information that is needed for Internet communication. (From Wikipedia)</para> </section> <section> <title>Setting up a DHCP server with drakwizard dhcp</title> <para>Welcome to the DHCP server wizard.</para> <procedure> <step> <title>Introducció</title> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp-im2" revision="1" align="center" format="PNG" fileref="drakwizard-dhcp-step1.png"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>The first page is just an introduction, click <guibutton>Next</guibutton>.</para> </step> <step> <title>Selecting Adaptor</title> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp-im3" revision="1" align="center" format="PNG" fileref="drakwizard-dhcp-step2.png"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Choose the network interface, which is connected to the subnet, and for which DHCP will assign IP addresses, and then click <guibutton>Next</guibutton>.</para> </step> <step> <title>Select IP range</title> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata revision="1" align="center" fileref="drakwizard-dhcp-step3.png" format="PNG" xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp-im4"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Select the beginning and ending IP addresses of the range of IPs you want the server to offer, along with the IP of the gateway machine connecting to some place outside the local network, hopefully close to the Internet, then click <guibutton>Next</guibutton>.</para> </step> <step> <title>Resum</title> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-dhcp-step4.png" revision="1" align="center" xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp-im5" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>Take a second to check these options, then click <guibutton>Next</guibutton>.</para> </step> <step> <title>Hold on...</title> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-dhcp-step5.png" revision="1" align="center" format="PNG" xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp-im6"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> <para>This can be fixed. Click <guibutton>Previous</guibutton> a few times and change things around.</para> </step> <step> <title>Hours later...</title> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata revision="1" fileref="drakwizard-dhcp-step6.png" align="center" format="PNG" xml:id="drakwizard_dhcp-im7"/> </imageobject> </mediaobject> </step> </procedure> </section> <section> <title>What is done</title> <para><itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>Installing the package dhcp-server if needed;</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Saving <code>/etc/dhcpd.conf</code> in <code>/etc/dhcpd.conf.orig;</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Creating a new <code>dhcpd.conf</code> starting from <code>/usr/share/wizards/dhcp_wizard/scripts/dhcpd.conf.default</code> and adding the new parameters:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para><code>hname</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><code>dns</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>net</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>ip</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><code>mask</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><code>rng1</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><code>rng2</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><code>dname</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><code>gateway</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><code>tftpserverip</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para><code>dhcpd_interface</code></para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Also modifying Webmin configuration file <code>/etc/webmin/dhcpd/config</code></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Restarting <code>dhcpd.</code></para> </listitem> </itemizedlist></para> </section> </section>