CentOS 7: Setup a DHCP server and provide specific IP based on MAC address

The dhcp package provides the ISC DHCP service and relay agent.

Step 2: Configure the DHCP service

Afterwards, we created the file /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf using the following content:

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
 option routers                  192.168.0.254;
 option subnet-mask              255.255.255.0;
 option domain-name              "bytefreaks.net";
 option domain-name-servers       192.168.0.1;
 option time-offset              -18000;     # Eastern Standard Time
 range 192.168.0.90 192.168.0.99;
}

host coolServer {
 hardware ethernet 0e:e0:4b:b4:28:82;
 fixed-address 192.168.0.80;
}

This configuration allowed us to provide a DHCP service to the network for the subdomain 192.168.0.x with the range [90,99].
Also, we statically defined the IP for our coolServer using a filter based on the MAC address of the machine.
If you do not want to provide any range, only static IPs, then comment out (#) the line that starts with the word range .

Step 3: Start DHCP service

systemctl start dhcpd.service;

Step 4: Check the status of DHCP service

systemctl status dhcpd.service;

It is a good idea to verify that there are no errors, so be sure to check the status of the service.
You can ignore the error that says “you did not define a subnet declaration for all devices” if you do not really need to do it.

Step 5: Permanently enable the DHCP service

systemctl enable dhcpd.service;

Additional:

Disable the DHCP service

systemctl disable dhcpd.service;

Stop the DHCP service

systemctl stop dhcpd.service;