Re: dhcpd config to span subnets question
Hi,
Is there no way you can throw an old box running dhcpd on your
172.21.2.0 subnet to serve out IP's?
Otherwise, I don't know if what your asking is possible.
Perhaps you could alias your eth0 to another IP on your
172.21.2.0 subnet. ???
cheers,
Mike
Quoting Bill Bell <whbell@bell-cs.com>:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a network with a special router which will forward DHCP requests
> from a client in one subnet to my Debian (up-to-date woody) server on a
> different segment. My question is, how do I, (or can I), configure
> dhcpd.conf to allow the dhcpd to serve a 172.21.2.xx,255.255.255.0
> range from my eth0 interface which has an IP of
> 172.21.0.2,255.255.255.0?
>
> dhcpd.conf
> ----------
> default-lease-time 1200;
> max-lease-time 2400;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> option routers 172.21.2.1;
> option domain-name-servers 172.21.0.2;
> option domain-name "mydomain.com";
> subnet 172.21.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 172.21.2.20 172.21.2.200;
> }
>
> cnsu:~# ifconfig eth0
> -------------
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:53:00:E6:17
> inet addr:172.21.0.2 Bcast:172.21.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:3555 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:3780 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:426535 (416.5 KiB) TX bytes:759521 (741.7 KiB)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6800
>
> cnsu:~# dhcpd
> ----- (error when starting dhcpd server)
> <<snip>>
> No subnet declaration for eth0 (172.21.0.2).
> Please write a subnet declaration in your dhcpd.conf file for the
> network segment to which interface eth0 is attached.
> exiting.
>
> --
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> Bill
>
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