Old Tired Question: 'Not configured to listen on any interfaces'

[Alan Buxey]

Hi,

> I've seen a lot of questions about 'not configured to listen on any
> interfaces' but I'm still not clear on something.  Is it a hard
> requirement that dhcpd.conf contain a subnet that corresponds to the
> subnet of the interface that's meant to be serving dhcpd?
> 
> We have this:
> 
> /usr/bin/dhcpd -cf /var/etc/dhcpd.conf -lf /var/dhcpd.leases -f eth0
> 
> and of course it says:
> 
> Not configured to listen on any interfaces!
> 
> because we don't have an eth0 subnet in the config.  Well, I don't
> want to serve dhcp on eth0's subnet.  What I did as a workaround was

just have a blank entry for eth0 - no pool or range. then it wont serve

alan