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- Overview
- Servers and Relays
- DHCP Config
- Data Store
- Hosts Name Service
- Lease Policy
- DNS Domain/Server
- Network
- Router
- NIS
- Relay Config
- Network Config
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-DHCP Configuration Wizard
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-The DHCP Configuration Wizard helps you configure a SolarisTM
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-Note: Please read the "Planning for DHCP Service" chapter in the Solaris DHCP Administration Guide, before configuring a DHCP server.
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-After initial configuration, use the Modify option in the Services
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-To enter information in the wizard, double-click in the field, enter the desired value, and then press Enter.
-The DHCP Configuration Wizard, asks you to supply the following information.
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- Data Store
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- Select the type of data store the DHCP server will use to
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- Text files |
- Data is stored in clear text ASCII files. Suitable for small number of clients, up to 10,000. Data can be shared through NFS among several DHCP servers. |
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- Binary files |
- Data is stored in binary text files. Suitable for large numbers of clients up to 100,000. Data can not be shared among several DHCP servers. |
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- Lease Policy
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- Enter the length of time before a lease expires.
- The lease is the amount of time a DHCP server grants
- permission to a DHCP client to use a particular address.
- You can enter from 1 hour to 3550 weeks.
- The lease time value should be relatively small, so that expired addresses
-are reclaimed quickly, but large enough so that if your DHCP service becomes
-unavailable, the clients continue to function until the machine(s) running
-the DHCP service can be repaired. A rule of thumb is to specify a time that
-is two times the predicted down time of a server. For example, if it generally
-takes four hours to obtain and replace a defective part and reboot the server,
-you should specify a lease time of eight hours.
- The default is to allow a client to renegotiate the lease before it expires.
- A Solaris DHCP client will try to renew the lease when it is halfway
- through the lease period.
- If not allowed to renegotiate, clients must issue a new DHCP request
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- new address when the lease expires. You may choose this option
- in an environment where there are more clients than there are
- addresses, and you need to enforce a time limit on the use of an IP
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- DNS Domain |
- The domain server resolves host names to host
- addresses. If the server is configured to use DNS, the domain name and address
- of the DNS server will be displayed.
- If the fields are empty, you can enter the domain name and address of a
- DNS domain server.
- You can enter the address of more than one server. The order in the list
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-Network Configuration
-This section begins the network configuration.
-You can configure the first network using the DHCP Configuration Wizard. Once
-the DHCP server is configured, you can add additional networks using the Network Wizard, which is available from the Edit menu, when the Address view is displayed.
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- Network Address |
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- Enter the IP address of the network you are configuring.
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- Enter the subnet mask for this network. A subnet mask is a way of dividing
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- Specify whether the network is a local area network (LAN) or point-to-point (PPP).
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- Routing |
- A router is a machine with multiple network
- interfaces that can forward IP packets from one network to
- another. In most cases, your clients should use router discovery to
- connect to a router. If you have clients in your network that cannot
- use router discovery, enter the IP address of a router which
- they can use to communicate with systems on another network.
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- NIS Domain Name
- NIS Server Address |
- If the server is configured to use NIS naming service,
- the NIS server information will be filled in. If not, you can enter the domain
- name and IP address of one or more NIS name servers.
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- The order in which the address appears in the list determines the order in
- which the servers are queried.
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