Assign IP's to certian mac addresses in dd-wrt

Question

First of all I need to apology, I have very little Unix/Linux knowledge.

I am following http://dns323.kood.org/howto:subversion to install SVN server on my DLink DNS323 device. I have successfully install Fonz Fun Plug. And I think I installed subversion-1.5.2-1.tgz as well.

According to the document I need to run svnserve.sh, in which part of the soruce code is

svnserve_start() {
    if [ -x "{$BINDIR}/svnserve" ]; then
        echo "Starting svnserve deamon... "
        ${BINDIR}/svnserve -d -r ${REPOSITORY}
    else
        echo "ERROR: svnserve not found or not executable"
    fi
}

I got ERROR: svnserve not found or not executable message, so it looks like to me $BINDIR is not defined well.

Anybody knows, how can I do echo to display the value of $BINDIR?

Thanks!

Solution

Assigning IP addresses based on MAC addresses is generally done by the DHCP server; this is often referred to as "static leases".

Here's the DD-WRT tutorial on enabling Static DHCP. In the web administration GUI, you'll find this option on the Services tab, in the DHCP Server options.

If you're using the ssh commandline interface, use the following commands:

• builds earlier than 13832:

  # X is the total number of static leases
  nvram set static_leasenum=X
  
  # note the space between the two example addresses
  nvram set static_leases="00:11:22:33:44:55=name1=IP-Address1 00:11:22:33:44:56=name2=IP-Address2"
  

• build 13832 and later:

  # X is the total number of static leases
  nvram set static_leasenum=X
  
  # note the space between the two example addresses
  # the last field is new; lease time; leave empty for "indefinite"
  nvram set static_leases="00:11:22:33:44:55=name1=IP-Address1= 00:11:22:33:44:56=name2=IP-Address2=1440"
  

Comments

[Jim Garrison]

Is this bash? Shouldn't {$BINDIR} be ${BINDIR}?

[Basile Starynkevitch]

I would suggest to take time to learn Linux by installing it on your main PC (laptop or desktop) computer.

[quack quixote]

the procedure may differ if you've replaced the default DHCP server with DNSmasq; see dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php?title=DNSMasq_as_DHCP_server

[Unfundednut]

Perfect thanks. Was hoping for a web based way but this works perfectly as well.

[Piotr Dobrogost]

MrStatic: There is a web based way. To quote quack quixote - In the web administration GUI, you'll find this option on the Services tab, in the DHCP Server options.

[Aspartame_Xu]

@Piotr Dobrogost: The web based way is broken for a lot of people, including me. I'm on DD-WRT v24-sp2 (06/14/11) and the web interface for adding static leases just plain doesn't work. It gives no errors. It just does nothing. Searching shows that a lot of people have this issue.

[Aspartame_Xu]

BTW, don't define extra leases or none of them will be saved. X must be the exact number defined in following statement.