Chapter 5 Settings for Interfaces and Network Services
Figure 5.17 DHCP server — DHCP settings
Figure 5.18 DHCP server — statistics (leased and free IP addresses within the scope)
Lease Reservations
DHCP server enables the administrator to book an IP address for any host. To make the reservation click on the Add → Reservations button in the Scopes folder.
Any IP address included in a defined subnet can be reserved. This address can but does not have to belong to the scope of addresses dynamically leased, and it can also belong to any scope used for exceptions.
IP addresses can be reserved for:
•hardware (MAC) address of the host — it is defined by hexadecimal numbers sepa- rated by colons, i.e.
00:bc:a5:f2:1e:50
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