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