Dazed_75 wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Patrick Jacques > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I believe it's caused by using Network Manager, which is intended > for desktop use to make configuration as painless as possible. If > you're going to run any server apps remove it with: > > apt-get remove network-manager > > I think you are close. Network manager actually is not the specific > problem here. I have dhcp3 working fine in the presence of Network > manager although that may be because there is only one interface in this > machine. From the file /etc/init.d/NetworkManager: > > ### BEGIN INIT INFO > # Provides: NetworkManager > # Required-Start: $remote_fs dbus hal > # Required-Stop: $remote_fs dbus hal > # Should-Start: $syslog > # Should-Stop: $syslog > # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 > # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 > # Short-Description: network connection manager > # Description: Daemon for automatically switching network > # connections to the best available connection. > ### END INIT INFO > > So, yes, it really is designed for a workstation not offering services > like a DHCP server. But the real crux of the problem seems to be that > the default configuration for the DHCP server is no longer being set to > listen on a fixed interface. This probably happened with the advent of > consideration for interfaces being more dynamic which seems not to have > been very well implemented from the viewpoint of dhcp3-server. So I > believe the transition is responsibe for not having considered that a > DHCP server can still exist in that environment. > > The problem with this hacked solution is it tries to restart > dhcp3-server any time any network interface comes up. I don't yet grok > for that environment how it knows to only do so for the correct > interfaces (e.g. could be valid for more than one, but not all). Yes, > that is more commonly a server type issue but that is a fairly > indistinct line in the sand. >
I'm still curious about how Ubuntu Server handles this. -- -Eric 'shubes' _______________________________________________ PLUG-applications mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-applications Reminder: All replies will go back to this mailing list. If you wish to send a reply to a specific person, please use the reply function and change the "To:" address to that person before sending.
