DHCP Server Configuration in CentOS

On February 5, 2013 by Liju Gopinathan - Linux

How to install DHCP Server

[root@dhcpserver ~]# yum install dhcp

DHCP Server Configuration

1. Install the Package ‘dhcp’

#yum install dhcp

2. To check whether the package is installed use:

* rpm -qa | grep dhcp

3. To list the files installed from the package ‘dhcp’

* rpm -ql dhcp

4. Master Configuration files are

* /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf (ipv4)

* /etc/dhcp/dhcpd6.conf (ipv6)

5. The Master Configuration file will be empty and will point you to a sample file in /usr/share/doc/dhcp-<ver>/dhcpd.conf.sample

6. Copy the sample configuration (/usr/share/doc/dhcp-<ver>/dhcpd.conf.sample) to /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

7. Basic Set of Parameters :