Old Tired Question: 'Not configured to listen on any interfaces'
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Thu Feb 24 18:49:18 UTC 2011
Matt Causey wrote:
>If it's a hard requirement for reasons that are buried in legacy that's fine.
It is !
Back when the software was originally designed, non-ethernet-like
interfaces weren't really considered. So it's fairly deeply ingrained
in the code how it deals with interfaces - with certain assumptions.
Similar issues affect running a relay agent where the link back to
the server is not ethernet-like (such as a PPP link). It's to do with
the way the server needs to be able to handle raw packets because you
are dealing with clients that don't yet have an address.
AIUI, you can compile the software to use BPF to get around the
requirement (but then you will not be able to serve local clients),
and you'd also have to patch the code to not complain as it is doing
now.
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