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Yes it works, that's how we hand out dynamic addresses here.  I rewrote
the man page.  Grab ftp://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/dhcpd.

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Subject: Re: [9fans] dhcpd and /lib/ndb/local
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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 22:06:51 -0700

I tried it. My limited testing shows that it works. Thanks.

At 11:16 AM 10/3/2001 +0100, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
>it's not documented, but it seems you can use
>	ip/dhcpd [dhcpd-options] addr0 n0 [addr1 n1 ...]
>to allocate n0 addresses starting with addr0, n1 from addr1, etc.
>
>it uses similarly named files in /lib/ndb/dhcp to track them.
>
>addresses are allocated only if there isn't a static binding in ndb.
>it also tries to check that any dynamic address is not still in use.
>
>does it work?
>i don't know.  i haven't tried it myself.
>
>
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