nets - JOIN DHCP server database
The nets file is employed by joind, the JOIN DHCP server,
to tell it which networks to administer and the ranges of
IP addresses available for dynamic assignment on each of
those networks.
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Blank lines and lines beginning with the number sign (#)
are ignored. Entries are separated from one another by
newline characters. Entries consist of three fields: the
network number (expressed as an IP address), the IP
address or name of a host running joind, which dynamically
configures clients on the network, and a range of available
addresses for dynamic allocation to hosts on the net.
The range is expressed as a pair of IP addresses separated
with a dash (-). There must be no whitespace separating
the dash from the IP addresses.
Several servers may administer a single network, and a
single server may administer several networks. Each network-server
pair may have several ranges of IP addresses
available for dynamic allocation. The network and server
IP addresses do not have to be repeated for each entry. A
line containing a single field is assumed to be an IP
range with the same server and network as the previous
entry: a line of two fields is assumed to be a server
address and IP range with the same network as the preceding
entry.
The ranges of addresses served by each cooperating server
must be disjoint. This condition is checked by the server
on startup.
joind(8), join.ipaddresses(4) delim off
nets(4)
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