dhcpd server - Can't bind to dhcp address. Address already in use

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 18:10 6/18/2004, Grey Kuyper wrote:
>(there is more but I commmented it all out to get to just the problem. The 
>problem appears when the subnet declaration is included)

Harder to diagnose with partial information; best to post the *entire* 
dhcpd.conf and also the contents of /etc/sysconfig/dhcp.

>Softwarewise:
>
>ps -ef | grep dhcp   says there are no other dhcp daemons running about.
>
>ps -ef | grep bootp   says there are no other bootp daemons running about.

Don't grep for dhcp or bootp... rather grep for anything on ports 67 or 68.

>I installed the latest and greatestfrom www.isc.org which at this moment 
>is dhcp-3.0.1rc13.ta.

So you installed from tarball, *not* from RPM? Yuck. Are you sure that you 
did not have an RPM installed earlier? That is, are you sure that you don't 
have duplicate stuff lying around?

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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