DHCP Configuration

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:35:46 -0400
>From: Frank Sweetser <fs at WPI.EDU>
>To: Leon_K at linuxwaves.com, Users of ISC DHCP <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
>Subject: Re: DHCP Configuration
>
>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.
>

And to help out here, the man pages in likely order of relevance:

dhcpd
dhcpd.conf
dhcp-options
dhcp-eval

There are others, but these 4 main ones would be about 100 pages of
printed text. There are also example dhcpd.conf files.

regards,
-glenn