On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Ian Forde wrote: > Wrote 0 leases to leases file. > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:00:de:ad:be:ef/10.0.0/24 > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:00:de:ad:be:ef/10.0.0/24 ??? This network 'name' literal (containing the '/'): "10.0.0/24" _looks_ wrong to me (it causes the 'punctuation' in the logfile entry to contain an extra '/'). Shouldn't this be, rather something, like: "FIRST-LAN" I do not see a formal restriction on the characterset allowed there; this appears: Name should be the name of the shared network. This name is used when printing debugging messages, so it should be descriptive for the shared network. The name may have the syntax of a valid domain name (although it will never be used as such), or it may be any arbitrary name, enclosed in quotes. I suggest you follow the charset of a valid 'domain name' and see if the problem stops. -- Russ herrold Jul 7 10:10:51 nfs dhcpd: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:01:02:05:54:ac/FIRST-LAN shared-network FIRST-LAN { option routers 10.16.1.1; # router being our router; option domain-name "first.lan"; default-lease-time 6000 ; max-lease-time 144000 ; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; allow booting; allow bootp; next-server 10.16.1.112 ; subnet 10.16.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { group { default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time 12000; host nt { hardware ethernet 00:60:97:71:26:52 ; fixed-address 10.16.1.2 ; } } } }