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nets(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual nets(4) NAME nets - JOIN DHCP server database DESCRIPTION The nets file is employed by joind, the JOIN DHCP server to tell it which networks it is to administer and the ranges of IP addresses available for dynamic assignment on each of those networks. FORMAT Blank lines and lines beginning with "#" are ignored. Entries are sep- arated from one another by newlines. 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 with a dash, '-', between them. 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 sev- eral ranges of IP addresses available for dynamic allocation. A useful shorthand is that the network and server IP addresses don't 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 en- try: a line of two fields is assumed to be a server address and IP range with the same network as the preceding. The ranges of addresses served by each of the cooperating servers must be disjoint. This condition is checked by the server on startup. RELATED INFORMATION joind(8), join.ipaddresses(4). delim off nets(4)