Sligtly OT: setting static routes on clients

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 09), Andrea Venturoli said:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> >In the last episode (Dec 09), Andrea Venturoli said:
> >>I've got a network of clients on which I'd like to set static
> >>routes; these are mainly (but not only) Windows machines,
> >>administered through a couple of FreeBSD servers. Is there any way
> >>to do this with DHCP? Or via Samba (netlogon.cmd)?
> >
> >You can try using the DHCP Classless Static Route option (#121, see
> >RFC 3442). MSDN claims that Windows XP and Server 2003 will process
> >them. FreeBSD's dhclient does not, but you should still be able to
> >set its dhcp server to send them.
> 
> You mean, from man dhcp-options:
> 
>        option static-routes ip-address ip-address
>                          [, ip-address ip-address...];
> 
>  This option specifies a list of static routes that the client should
>  install in its routing cache.  If multiple routes to the same
>  destination are specified, they are listed in descending order of
>  priority.

No, that's option 33, which as you found out only handles a single IP.
Option 121 includes network and netmask fields, but since it's not
known by isc-dhcpd, you will have have to define it yourself (see the
dhcp-options manpage, "DEFINING NEW OPTIONS" section).

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com