How to install VyOS 1.1.7 on an Alix 2c1 or similar i386 single board computer

ISC dhcpd has the ability to always give a specific MAC address the same IP address “lease” using the fixed-address configuration option. This is configured in Vyatta using the static-mapping configuration statement. Unfortunately, since dhcpd doesn’t store fixed-address leases in the dhcpd.leases file, the Vyatta show dhcp leases …

Update March 2017: I have an updated version of this procedure for VyOS, the open source community fork of Vyatta, available in a new post: VyOS on Alix 2C1 Single Board Computer.

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