[Gllug] dhcpd Question

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Wed Dec 29 13:16:12 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 09:31 +0000, David Godfrey wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
> 
> > I'm configuring a server with three network interfaces. T he first has fixed
> > IP connected to an ADSL router, the second is an ethernet card for the
> > internal 100BT wired network and the third is a wireless card.
> > 
> > I've been searching the dhcp docs for how to make it offer one range of
> > address leases to the wired network, another to the wireless network and
> > obviously none on the fixed IP interface connected to the router.
> > 
> > I can't find an option I want in man dhcpd.conf. I recall doing this through
> > the dhcpd startup script in init.d sometime in the past. Would that mean I
> > need to modify the script to run an instance of DHCP for each interface.
> 
> No. Look at the subnet option in man dhcpd.conf. This allows dhcpd to
> identify which interface the request came in on.

Can you be a bit more specific?  This is something I've tried to do in
the past but couldn't find any documentation on how.  The dhcpd.conf
manual page doesn't (AFAICS) tell you how to bind a subnet declaration
to a particular network interface.

TIA,
John

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