[Gllug] DHCP and multiple NICs

[Rodger Etz-Brown]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:45:13PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 
> On 2/27/02, 5:20:17 PM, Rodger Etz-Brown <reb at b4mad.net> wrote regarding 
> [Gllug] DHCP and multiple NICs:
> 
> 
> > Howdy,
> 
> > am wondering if the following would be possible:
> 
> > - One Linux box with one dhcpd started
> > - The machine has got two NICs, eth0 and eth1
> > - According to the NIC where the DHCP request comes from, the server
> >   should give out an IP. I.e. request comes via eth0 -> IP will be
> >   192.x.x.x or request comes from eth1 -> IP will be 10.x.x.x
> 
> It's a trivial task using the standard ISC dhcp daemon.  You just tell it 
> which ip ranges to allocate to which subnets.  It will listen on all 
> interfaces by default and if your networking is configured properly will 
> automatically associate the correct nic with the correct subnet.

Doh! Of course! Just tried it and it works. Didn't expect it to be sooo
obvious.

Thanks,
REB


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