While we're ecstatic about the multiple-interface dhcp server, its really quite limited in the configuration options. Would it be possible to have all the dhcp "features" available to add via a dropdown menu...with the ability to add an unlimited number of features. This is useful for things such as time server, etc. If not, where is the dhcpd.conf that i can manually edit? Also, for the static mappings, is there a way you could add the ability to do a mass import via a text file/existing configuration file. we have hundreds of entries i really don't want to enter by hand.
thanks...found the config, and that should work fine. One other request however. When you set a static dhcp address, it makes the hostname just the ip_address. Would be nice to be able to set a specific hostname rather than have it auto-assign. Yes, i can manually change them all in the file, but i'd like to be able to manage this part via the web interface.
You need to edit the dhcpd.conf-default file, not the dhcpd.conf. The dhcpd.conf file gets overwritten whenever there are changes made in the front end.
While I agree that this would be a nice feature, why would you want this for a large network (I assume that's the type of network you are referring to)? Why not have an internal DHCP server, running on Windows 200x/Linux or another server, and not on the firewall?
I only use the ASL DHCP server for my DMZ network. For the Internal network, I run another DHCP server on my local file server.
That is a very common approach, and most file server OSes, including Windows and NetWare, which are the two most common ones, come with a DHCP server. Their DHCP servers are also DNS integrated, which makes them the preferred ones to use in any directory services based LAN environment.
Having just a simple utility DHCP server included with ASL works fine as is.
