dhcpd on cygwin/XP2

[Simon Hobson]

fhcom at club-internet.fr wrote:

>Following your instructions to install dhcp-3.01rc11-cygwin.path, I hav= e
>now a dhcpd server in my computer XP/SP2.
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>
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>When I execute this command line under a cygwin window:
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>./dhcpd -d eth1
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>I get the following log:
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>=24 ./dhcpd -d eth1
>Internet Software = Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc11
>Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software= Consortium.
>All rights reserved.
>For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
>Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
>eth1: not found

<snip>

>The server does not start.
>
>How can i configure eth1?  What does it represent in a windows XP = machine?


I am not aware that the server will work on Windows. I gather from 
discussions some time ago on the list that it actually requires some 
significant changes to the server code because of the way it needs to 
handle low-level APIs to the network interfaces - specifically you 
can NOT just open a socket and lsiten on it.

Someone did say they were working on it, but I don't recall hearing any more.


Now, the nature and wording of your question suggests that, without 
wishing to be rude or unhelpful, you lack the basic skills needed for 
this situation. On most Unix type boxes, eth1 would be the second 
ethernet interface - it is unlikely to be called that on Windows, and 
I've no idea what it would be called in Cygwin. If you only have one 
interface, then you almost certainly don't need to specify and 
interface on the command line, so "-d <interface>" is redundant and 
can be omitted. ifconfig (if present as a command) would tell you 
what interfaces are configured on the system.

Simon