More work on dhcp

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/content/posts/WIP-openbsd-dhcp-server/index.org b/content/posts/WIP-openbsd-dhcp-server/index.org
index 80fdfd1..3d40a2b 100644
--- a/content/posts/WIP-openbsd-dhcp-server/index.org
+++ b/content/posts/WIP-openbsd-dhcp-server/index.org
@@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ To jumpstart the configuration, I'll first copy the file from
 =/etc/examples/dhcpd.conf= to =/etc/dhcpd.conf= so I don't have to
 start from scratch.
 
-#+BEGIN_SRC shell
+#+BEGIN_SRC
 doas cp /etc/examples/dhcpd.conf /etc/
 #+END_SRC
 
 Then I'll edit the file with =mg=, an emacs-like editor that comes
 with OpenBSD.
 
-#+BEGIN_SRC shell
+#+BEGIN_SRC
 doas mg /etc/dhcpd.conf
 #+END_SRC
 
@@ -84,12 +84,15 @@ subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
 }
 #+END_SRC
 
+Let's go through this line-by-line to get a better understanding of
+what's going on here.
+
 The comments at the top are just to help understand the file at a
 glance, and don't serve any practical function.
 
-An =option= can be specified globally or per-subnet. They can also be
-specified per-client for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_Protocol][BOOTP]] clients, but I won't be covering that.
-Here I set the domain name and DNS servers globally.
+An =option= can be specified globally or per-subnet, and can also be
+specified per-client for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_Protocol][BOOTP]] clients. Here I set the domain name
+and DNS servers globally.
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC
 option domain-name "home.local"
@@ -127,8 +130,8 @@ default-lease-time 604800;
 max-lease-time 2592000;
 #+END_SRC
 
-Finally I have an example client configuration. Here the client with
-the MAC address =22:33:44:55:66:77= will all ways be given the IP
+Finally I have an example static client configuration. Here the client
+with the MAC address =22:33:44:55:66:77= will all ways be given the IP
 =192.168.0.201=. This is useful when you want to assign a specific IP
 to a certain client without having to manually configure the IP.
 
@@ -138,3 +141,10 @@ host example-static-client {
         fixed-address 192.168.0.201;
 }
 #+END_SRC
+
+To run the DHCP server, we first enable, then start it using =rcctl=.
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC
+doas rcctl enable dhcpd
+doas rcctl start dhcpd
+#+END_SRC