DHCP on Linux from my experience has problems with multiple interfaces.
The DHCP package itself has worked fine for me. Just make sure that the
DHCP server is operational and that it's using the intended interface (
That of your private network).
Charles Shoemaker wrote:
> I've just started playing with dhcpd on Linux this weekend. If I run
> it on my test server, everything's fine. If I run it from my
> production gateway machine, my test win95 system can't find the dhcp
> server. The only thing different is one line in
> /etc/sysconfig/network.
>
> In the test machine the "gateway=" line has the address of the
> production gateway. On the gateway machine, the line is just
> "gateway=". I've been doing this since my early RedHat days. If I
> add my own ethernet ip address (192.168.1.3), the machine hangs as
> it's going through the files in rc3.d, specifically xntpd, one of the
> early ones. I tried putting in my static ip from my isp, and
> changing "gatewaydev" to ppp0, with equally bad results.
>
> On the test machine, I was seeing syslog errors about network
> unreachable before I added the gateway address to
> /etc/sysconfig/network. I see nothing from my log on the gateway
> machine.
>
> I checked "TrinityOS" documentation and added the "route" line
> recommended. It doesn't seem to help. Thanks anyway, David --
> nice try. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'd like to use
> DHCP on my next Linux gateway installation for a client, but if I
> can't, I'll live. TIA.
>
> Charlie Shoemaker
>
> "Some people crave baseball - I find this unfathomable - but I can
> easily understand why a person could get excited about playing a
> bassoon."
> Frank Zappa
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