how define network with mask 8 for dhcp server?

Olivier Nicole olivier.nicole at cs.ait.ac.th
Tue Aug 6 08:40:11 UTC 2013


Sam,

> my problem is to know how define a network with mask 8 and dhcp server
> works correctly with it! you know if i config my dhcpd.conf like below, i
> have core dump either:
> subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0
> {
>     range 10.0.0.1 10.255.255.254;
> }
>
> do you know how should i define my range ??

The reason may be that 2^24 machines in a subnet is such a non-sense
that dhcp simply cannot manage it.

Best regards,

Olivier

>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole at cs.ait.ac.th
>> wrote:
>
>> Sam,
>>
>> > subnet 192.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0
>>
>> I know it is not the answer to your question, but you are wrong in your
>> guess that 192.0.0.0/8 is all private IPs. Only 192.168.0.0/16 is.
>>
>> I know that for certain because my own IP starts with 192.
>>
>> If you want a full /8 private, you can only use 10.0.0.0/8
>>
>> Bets regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>> --
>>
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