undeclared subnet for eth0

[Simon Hobson]

dopazo jonathan wrote:

>This is my dhcpd.conf file:
>
>
>authoritative;
>ddns-update-style none;
>
>failover peer "dhcp-failover" {
>   primary; # declare this to be the primary server
>   address 192.168.1.100;
>   port 520;
>   peer address 192.168.1.200;
>   peer port 520;
>   max-response-delay 30;
>   max-unacked-updates 10;
>   load balance max seconds 3;
>   mclt 1800;
>   split 128;
>}
>
>subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>   option broadcast-address 192.168.1.255;
>   option routers 192.168.1.1;
>   pool {
>     failover peer "dhcp-failover";
>     max-lease-time 1800; # 30 minutes
>     range 192.168.1.201 192.168.1.254;
>   }
>}
>
>
>and ifconfig says.
>
>eth0	Protokoll:Ethernet  Hardware Adresse 00:E0:98:9E:AC:FA
>	inet Adresse:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Maske:255.255.255.0
>	UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>	RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>	TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>	Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:100
>	RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>	Interrupt:11 Basisadresse:0xc000

That looks OK


>Is possible that not having a gateway crash when 
>it tries to connect to 192.168.1.1 as gateway?

I assume you mean, will the dhcp server crash if 
the gateway isn't connected ? It shouldn't do 
since the dhcp server doesn't need to contact the 
gateway.


Now, back to the original query, you say you got 
a message "undeclared subnet for eth0 to start 
(0.0.0.0)". Was this in syslog or somewhere else 
? Is this the only message you get when dhcpd 
tries to start ? If not, can you post the rest of 
the messages ?

At the moment I can't see any obvious reason for the problem.

Simon