On Feb 25, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Bray Mailloux wrote:
> I've been toying with the DHCP server options but cannot seem to

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> bring up the process; everytime I run ps there is no dhcpd process

> to be found and no computers on my network are pulling down

> addresses from the server.

> My DHCPD.conf file looks as such.

>

> -bash-3.1# nano /etc/dhcpd.conf

>  GNU nano 1.2.5                File: /etc/dhcpd.conf

>

> #       $OpenBSD: dhcpd.conf,v 1.1 1998/08/19 04:25:45 form Exp $

> #

> # DHCP server options.

> # See dhcpd.conf(5) and dhcpd(8) for more information.

> #

>

> # Network:              192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

> # Domain name:          none

> # Name servers:         68.94.156.1 and 68.94.157.1

> # Default router:       192.168.1.1

> # Addresses:            192.168.1.20 - 192.168.1.35

> #

> shared-network LOCAL-NET {

>        option domain-name "example.com";

>        option domain-name-servers 68.94.156.1, 68.94.157.1;

>

>        subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

>                option routers 192.168.1.1;

>                range 192.168.1.20 192.168.1.35;

>        }

> }

>

> And my interfaces are configured as such.

>

> cat /etc/hostname.rl0          < External interface

> inet 192.168.1.2    255.255.255.0   NONE

>

> cat /etc/hostname.rl1         < Internal Interface

> 192.168.1.3   255.255.255.0

> nano rc.conf.local reads as such

> dhcpd_flags=""

>

What does /etc/dhcpd.interfaces have in it? This should have the

interface with which you would like to run a DHCP server from.
To manually test that your dhcpd.conf is working try:
# dhcpd rl1

# ps aux | grep dhcpd