dhcp server

[M. Grabert]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Sean Godsell wrote:

> Hello hostap people  ;)
>
> Okay I have hostap working.   But the connecting clients have to manually
> set there ip address.   I would like to be able to use dhcpd so the
> connecting wireless users don't have to set there ip address.   The
> following is what I have in the dhcpd.conf file:
>               ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
>               default-lease-time 600;
>               max-lease-time 3600;
>               option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>               option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
>               option routers 192.168.0.1;
>               option domain-name-servers 10.10.0.1;
>               option domain-name "tims.org";
> #              allow unknown clients;
>
>             subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>               range 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.250;
>             }
> My pc's wlan0 ip address is 192.168.0.1.   Does hostap support dhcp, or is
> my dhcpd.conf file configured incorrectly?   Any help would really be
> appreciated.   Thank you

HostAP doesn't care about whether it's carrying IPv4 or IPv6 traffic etc.,
and therefore doesn't care/interfere with DHCP.

Ergo: your dhcpd.conf is configured incorrectly (dhcpd is working fine for me)


I don't see a "pool" or "host" statement in your config, like

   pool
      {
         range 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.200;
         allow unknown clients;
         default-lease-time 28800;
         max-lease-time 28800;
      }

OR

   host my_machine
      {
         hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:44:55;
         fixed-address 192.168.0.2;
      }


Place a pool statement within your "subnet" block, or place some
"host" definitions outside your "subnet" block, and it should work.

BTW, have you set "authoritative;" ?

Greetings,
   Max