Match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 14) = “AAPLBSDPC/i386” # JJM ISC DHCP Configuration, providing BSDP Service to Apple Hardware.
Without his efforts, this information wouldn’t be available. Suleski for emailing me a working ISC DHCP configuration for Intel machines. We don’t want to hijack an existing DHCP server on the public LAN. This should work with BSDP requests coming from OpenFirmware and Intel EFI.įirst, tell dhcpd to start only on the internal interface. Here’s how we configure ISC DHCP to service Apple BSDP requests. Note, installing these packages will not enable any of the services they provide, so it’s safe to install the software here without worrying about breaking anything.Ĭonfiguring ISC DHCP to handle BSDP requests. Installing CentOS is beyond the scope of this document. Please see the Additional Resources section at the bottom for firewall rules that route traffic via NAT from the private network to the public one.įirst, install CentOS on an old PC. We’re assuming the linux gateway dual-homed server is located at: It’s always a good idea to have working, reversible DNS.
This article describes how to setup a Linux machine to provide BSDP services to Apple Macintosh machines. HOWTO: Mac OS X BSDP Service using a GNU/Linux Server