On 7/15/2011 1:54 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>
>> as a rule, you should declare ALL subnets in simple form:
>>
>> subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { }
>>
>> so ISC DHCP knows about them. Why, I do not know, but it is supposed to
>> be in newer versions (more strict rules for config file.)
>
> Thanks for your response.
> As far as I can see, my dhcpd.conf satisfies these conditions.
>
> But what puzzles me is, what defines the correspondence
> between interface and network,
> eg in my case eth1 -> 192.168.2.0/24
>
> Surely this should be there independently of dhcpd ?
Dhcpd shouldn't care about the name of the interface, but if the request
hasn't been forwarded by a router/relay agent it needs to figure out the
subnet of the interface where the request is received so it uses the
corresponding range and options for the response.
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Les Mikesell
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