Hey,

My Mandrake 10.1 box has 3 NIC's (utp, modem, coax). On the first NIC i use a crossed UTP to connect my laptop. When i connect the laptop before starting dhcpd, all works fine. But when dhcpd starts without the laptop it doesn't listen on that NIC.

I've experimented with plugging and unplugging the cable after starting dhcpd with the laptop on. This works fine too. So the problem just seems to be that the server doesn't start correctly.

So i'd like dhcpd to listen on eth0 when i start it.

Is there something i must add to dhcpd.conf or mayby the ifcfg-ethX file???

I have been googling for clues for a couple of hours now. Getting nowere. Hope one of you guys can help...

THX

From my understanding and experience, the dhcpd server listens on the interfaces for which it has subnets defined.

If after restarting you dhcpd server you check your logs it may provide u with some info on which devices are being used etc

in the command line you can do it via 'dhcpd -d -f eth0 &'

or to do that automatically, check your dhcpd startup scripts. in my CentOS box, i edit /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd and add the interface where i want dhcpd to listen to.

I tried both born4linux idea's but no succes. Edditing INTERFACES in /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd seems to have no effect at all. If I use "dhcpd eth0" dhcpd only tries to start that one interface, but fails.

Dhcpd indead seems to start listening to interfaces for witch subnets are defined like DoubleOTeC mentioned. So the problem perhaps has notthing to do with dhcpd itself. The staticly defined IP's for my NIC only show when the NIC is plugged. This causes dhcpd not to find the correctly (i guess) defined subnet. Some experimenting shows that this is only a problem on my PCI NIC's not on the older ISA NIC's they seem to have an IP wether or not they are plugged.

Is this perhaps a problem with NIC configuration...

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