Sligtly OT: setting static routes on clients

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Dec 9 07:44:55 PST 2005


In the last episode (Dec 09), Andrea Venturoli said:
> Hello.
> 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.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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