DHCP Configuration

[Frank Sweetser]

Leon Kendrick wrote:
> During the last several days, I have read untold amounts of literature
> about DHCP configuration and I have yet to find the answer to three basic
> and related questions:  (1)on a system that has two nics installed, eth0
> and eth1, which nic should the dhcp server be bound to, in other words,
> which nic will dhcp listen on?

Which one should it be bound to is purely a function of your network topology. 
  The answer is, whichever one will be hearing the DHCP requests, either via 
listening for local broadcasts or relay agents.

As for which one will it listen on, the answer is whichever ones you tell it to.

> (2)how do you bind the listening nic to dhcpd?

On the command line.  See the man page for more details.

>  and (3)which nic should be set to broadcast responses?  Thanks

You don't, the server handles it.

I'd highly recommend reading the man pages thoroughly - it will answer a lot 
of questions for you.

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