no Working leases on persistant database

[stephane lepain]

Hi Simon, 

But the two NICS are configured in static. From my understanding it is
good to prevent the DHCP client receiving DHCP service on the DHCP
server. How would be able to avoid that if the host declaration doesnt
suit? Plus, how would that host declaration stop the dhcp server from
working on one NIC. It would just avoid the other NIC from booting that
is all? Or am i missing something? Is it better then to declare the
server to be working on one NIC such as "dhcpd if1"?

Cheers Simon, 

PS: My apologies if the words arent that clear. I have been using dhcp
for the past two days :) 


Le mardi 15 janvier 2008 à 15:27 +0000, Simon Hobson a écrit :
> stephane lepain wrote:
> 
> >Wouldn't adding this host declaration be better in order to prevent the
> >DHCP Client receiving DHCP Service ? and thus avoiding the error message
> >I go earlier?
> >
> >host router-server {
> >  hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
> >  deny booting;
> 
> No, because you need to configure the servers interfaces somehow ! 
> You cannot reasonably configure them from a DHCP service running on 
> the same server and so they should be statically configured.
> 
> Creating a host declaration as shown will simply prevent the server 
> handing out a lease - it won't stop the client asking for one, or 
> complaining when it gets no response.
> 
> 
> 
> >  I have now configured my DHCP server which has two nics in static. Both
> >  of them. The result is much better and the error message is gone. In
> >  fact that error message was (I think) coming from the server itself as
> >  it was trying to offer a lease to the wifi network card in the server.
> >  By putting my two ethernet nics is static in the server and
> >  reconfiguring the dhcdbd I solved that problem. On the top of that I
> >  have added a line to my dhcpd.conf file "dhcpd if1" The result is great
> >  but now my server keeps telling that it has no wired network which in
> >  fact is completly wrong because all network is working fine. I have my
> >  permanent clients on my network which are working fine and as well the
> >  nomads one which allocted dynamic addresses for.
> >  Any idea on why my server persist in telling me that I have no wired
> >  network? That happened just after i put my two nics on my server in
> >  statics.
> 
> What do you mean by "... keeps telling that it has no wired network 
> ..." ? Is this in the logs (which logs ? what process name ?) or 
> somewhere else ?
> 
> 
> "dhcpd if1" is not a valid statement for the dhcpd.conf file. It's 
> something that is passed via the command line, so is either part of 
> the command file that loads the dhcp service, or a config file read 
> by it.
> 
>