On our first install of Etch, we are having difficulty getting the dhcp server running. It keeps complaining in syslog that it does not have an interface to listen on.

The "stock" file we base on works fine with Sarge. It is as follows:

ddns-update-style none;
authoritative;
DHCP_INTERFACE = "eth0";

option domain-name "lds-smb.lueckdatasystems.com";
option domain-name-servers 10.10.10.10;
option netbios-name-servers 10.10.10.10;
option netbios-node-type 8;

default-lease-time 1209600;
max-lease-time 1814400;

log-facility local7;

subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.10.10.200 10.10.10.220;
option routers 10.10.10.2;
}

eth0 is the correct interface for the Etch machine in question.

Suggestions?

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On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Michael Lueck wrote:

> On our first install of Etch, we are having difficulty getting the dhcp
> server running. It keeps complaining in syslog that it does not have an
> interface to listen on.
>
> The "stock" file we base on works fine with Sarge. It is as follows:
>
> ddns-update-style none;
> authoritative;
> DHCP_INTERFACE = "eth0";
>
> option domain-name "lds-smb.lueckdatasystems.com";
> option domain-name-servers 10.10.10.10;
> option netbios-name-servers 10.10.10.10;
> option netbios-node-type 8;
>
> default-lease-time 1209600;
> max-lease-time 1814400;
>
> log-facility local7;
>
> subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 10.10.10.200 10.10.10.220;
> option routers 10.10.10.2;
> }
>
> eth0 is the correct interface for the Etch machine in question.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> --
> Michael Lueck
> Lueck Data Systems
> http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
>

do you have the interface listed in /etc/default/dhcp3-server ?


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> Suggestions?

Seems I had the answer all along...

Andrew Pollock wrote:

> If you lifted /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf *and* /etc/default/dhcp3-server from
> your production server...

I forgot that /etc/default/dhcp3-server exists, and that had a blank interfaces entry. That solved it!

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