Running on Debian Lenny, installed dhcpd with apt-get install dhcp3-server.
Machine has two NICs: 192.168.1.1/24 and 10.100.1.17/24.

My /etc/dhcpd.conf:
DHCPDARGS=eth0

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.200;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 86400;
}

subnet 10.100.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}


Trying to start dhcpd reports "no subnet declaration for eth0 (192.168.1.1)" and "no subnet declaration for eth1 (10.100.1.17)".

Is dhcpd using /etc/dhcpd.conf, or do I have the wrong config file? If it's right, why is this failing?

In my version of dhcpd, the config file is "/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf". The man page for dhcpd should tell you for sure.

My real dhcpd.conf was in /etc/dhcp3/. Anyone else with this problem can use "find / -name dhcpd.conf" to find it. Thank you.