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Old 01-06-2005, 07:37 AM   #1
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dhcpd errors on non-dhcp NIC


My OpenBSD router is printing this on boot:

starting network daemons: dhcpd Jan 7 11:35:43 BSDrouter dhcpd: No subnet declaration for rl0 (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)
Please write a subnet declaration in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment to which interface rl0 is attached.

Those XX's are covers for my real external IP address. But dhcpd shouldn't be having anything to do with that NIC nor that IP address - as best as I know. After this error, dhcpd reports that it is exiting, thus not working for rl1 (the nic it SHOULD be serving on).

What have I forgotten?

My dhcpd.conf

********************************

shared-network LOCAL-NET {
option domain-name "MYdomain.com";
option domain-name-servers 203.12.160.35, 203.12.160.36;

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 192.168.1.1;

range 192.168.1.32 192.168.1.127;
}
}


*********************************

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Old 01-06-2005, 07:42 AM   #2
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what ip-adress did you give to rl1 ?

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Old 01-06-2005, 07:48 AM   #3
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rl1 has a static IP of 192.168.1.1

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Old 01-06-2005, 11:09 AM   #4
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that's oke...
look here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...icle&artid=276

i followed that,
if you want i can post my dhcpc.config file but i think the " LQ-answer " is very clear.

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Old 01-06-2005, 07:29 PM   #5
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After following the guide on the LQ howto you sent me I've re designed my dhcpd.conf file however am still being faced with the same issue.

My new file:

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
{
range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.100;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
option domain-name "MyDomain.com";
option domain-name-servers My.ISP.DNS.ONE, MY.ISP.DNS.TWO;
option routers 192.168.1.1;

host fileserver
{
hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
fixed-address 192.168.1.2;
}

# host mailserver
#{
#hardware ethernet;
#fixed-address 192.168.1.3;
#}

#host MyDNS
#{
#hardware ethernet;
#fixed-address 192.168.1.4;
#}
}

subnet MY.EXTERNAL.STATIC.IP netmask MY.EXTERNAL.SUBNET.VALUE
{}


The very last section (subnet MY.EXTERN...) was added because I was still receiving the same error message as before - so I thought I'd add this to see if it would fix it. But alas, no. Thanks for the great link I didn't know about the static setting of IP's using the hostname and MAC address, this wil prove VERY useful. Thank you. Any more clues as to why I'm getting this error?

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Old 01-06-2005, 07:41 PM   #6
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i'm not at my own pc. now, but i ill post my config-file tomorrow ( if still needed ....)
i know it looks much different though...

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Old 01-06-2005, 07:44 PM   #7
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That'd be great. Could be anything in the way dhcpd is running? I mean as far as I can tell dhcpd shouldn't care less about rl0 as it's my external NIC. Is there somewhere I should be telling dhcpd which NIC or address to listen on?

Thanks for your help - I'm stumped.

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Old 01-07-2005, 04:08 PM   #8
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btw.....how do you start dhcpd ?
maybe it should be " #dhcpd eth1 " ?

and if you need my config-file, i have it here....

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Old 01-07-2005, 05:05 PM   #9
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I was just on my way in to let you guys know that I figured it out. I had a feeling I had to pass reference to the correct NIC when I started dhcpd. As you just said "-q rl1". Everything is fine now. Thanks for your help. Out of three howtos I went to in order to find out what was going wrong, none of them told me that I had to tell dhcpd which NIC, or more appropriately HOW to tell dhcpd. Anyway, all good now.

Thanks again,

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