Shorewall Geek wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to get a Shorewall installation on Debian and am running into >> some problems that actually related to DHCP, or at least that's my >> theory. I'm writing to this list in hopes that enough people have >> already been through this that they know an answer. >> >> The problem I have is that the DHCP server doesn't know what interface >> to listen to and, more importantly, not to listen to. The problem I >> have is that on the one subnet I have two DHCP servers in violent >> contention with each other and typically within minutes my entire >> network is fubar. What's worse is this new DHCP server is much faster >> at responding. >> >> Because of the rather nasty effect it has on the subnet, testing is very >> limited this time of year as term papers come due and email, web, and >> printers are of absolute importance. >> >> I think there is a way to configure this under the dhcp server >> configuration but I'm curious what the shorewall people have to say >> about this one. >> >> Also, there is a lot of martian traffic. But I won't really look into >> this one until I've been able to set this up for more than 5 minutes. > > Sounds like you have two interfaces connected to the same HUB/switch.
If course the Martians could also be caused by the DHCP server handing out IP addresses that don't belong on that LAN segment. The interfaces that a Debian DHCP server listens on is specified in /etc/default/dhcpd, IIRC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
