I think I understand bridges a lot better now thanks to you. Thanks for 
the post and your research on this.

Bob Cochran



On 7/12/11 6:03 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Alright so here is what I see.  You have you are trying to setup your dhcpd 
> on a virtual interface and not a real interface.  That will not work, you 
> need ARP to have dhcpd working.  Look at this:
>
> http://forum.openvz.org/index.php?t=msg&goto=33837&;
>
> This will help you likely.
>
> Basically what your dhcp server is trying to do is run not on venet0:0 but on 
> venet0 for which you do not have subnet defined.  You likely can test that by 
> defining the subnet of your vnet0.  It may startup for you (but obviously 
> won't do anything useful).  You will likely have to create a bridged 
> interface and put that.
>
> I suppose you can try to include the venet0 subnet in your dhcpd.conf and it 
> may work, I never tested it that way, but it be worth a shot just to see.
>
>
>
> Marek Dohojda
> 720-308-8622
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:59 PM
> To: cobbler mailing list
> Subject: RE: *paid install help?*: Cobbler on a OpenVZ container / "dhcpd" 
> failing
>
>>   /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd
> # Command line options here
> DHCPDARGS=
>
>
>
>> your ifconfig printout
>
> [root@cobbler sysconfig]# ifconfig
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>             inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>             inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>             UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>             RX packets:20670 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>             TX packets:20670 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>             collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>             RX bytes:2331576 (2.2 MiB)  TX bytes:2331576 (2.2 MiB)
>
> venet0    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
> 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>             inet addr:127.0.0.1  P-t-P:127.0.0.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0
> Mask:255.255.255.255
>             UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>             RX packets:18501 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>             TX packets:15557 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>             collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>             RX bytes:1913257 (1.8 MiB)  TX bytes:3754172 (3.5 MiB)
>
> venet0:0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
> 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
>             inet addr:212.72.124.87  P-t-P:212.72.124.87
> Bcast:212.72.124.87  Mask:255.255.255.255
>             UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>
> =======
> (NOTE:  The IP has been changed from actual output.)
>
> I believe instead of "lo" there should be an "eth1" -- can see that
> this is the case for the *old* Cobbler VPS that I migrated to OpenVZ,
> where dhcpd runs but where there is another problem.
>
> Frank
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