[K12OSN] dhcp question

[Steve Wright]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 05:18, Aaron Leininger wrote:
> I thought you all might be able to help me out with something...
> 
> I am helping to advise a computer club at my school. I am setting up a linux
> server to do some things for them and to demonstrate some of the features of
> linux. One of the things I am demonstrating is DHCP. I am running 2 network
> cards on the server. 1 of them (eth0 at this point) is set to grab an
> address off of the school network and I was hoping to install a dhcp server
> and run it on the 2nd nic(eth1). The system says both cards are working
> properly and are started. eth0 is grabbing an address off of the school
> network fine and is working a-ok. I got dhcp server installed and the
> service starts and stops fine but it isn't generating addresses. Is there
> some way to tell the dhcp server which nic it is supposed to be serving
> addresses through? I did some research online and found only basic setup
> references.
> 

Yep, in the manual (/me resists the temptation) it says ;

"The names of the network interfaces on which dhcpd  should  listen  for
broadcasts  may  be specified on the command line."


here's all your docs ;

man dhcpd
man dhcp-options
man dhcpd.conf


I would love to teach kids that.  8-)


/steve