On Feb 25, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Bray Mailloux wrote:

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> 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