[ale] DHCPD

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sat Jun 3 13:31:02 EDT 2006


> I used to run into this a long time ago.  I think you just need to tell
> dhcpd to listen on eth0 from the command line, no from the dhcpd.conf
> file.  Try adding this to /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd
>
> DHCPDARGS=eth0

BINGO!! It was set to eth1. Changed to eth0 and all is well in the
universe (unless you watched Dr. Who last night).

>
> You can follow the logic of what's going on by looking at
> /etc/init.d/dhcpd
>
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> I have not seen this before and I'm coming up blank on researching this
>> problem. I have a machine running FC4 with 2 nics, one RJ45 jack and the
>> other is a wireless PC card. The RJ45 is eth0. When I setup dhcpd.conf
>> to
>> serve IPs on eth0 it barfs unless eth1 is configured. Then using a blank
>> setup for eth1 the service will start, but it only listens for dhcp
>> requests on eth1. It simply ignores eth0.
>>
>> I have setup a static IP on eth0 and the socket is operational. I can
>> network to another system I setup on the LAN in that same subnet. For
>> some
>> reason dhcp doesn't "see" that interface.
>>
>> ideas?
>>
>> Jim
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