DHCP in NAT in a VM Guest and a Mac Host

[Romer Ventura]

It doesn't matter.. You can have many services running in one VM guest. They
can both use the same NIC. In fact you can have many virtual Ifs in one
physical NIC. Or you can access one physical NIC per Guest.

You need to check your setup... Also those logs are no help. You should see
something like this when you start it:
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.3
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems
Consortium.
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Not searching LDAP since ldap-server,
ldap-port and ldap-base-dn were not specified in the config file
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.3
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems
Consortium.
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: For info, please visit
http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Not searching LDAP since ldap-server,
ldap-port and ldap-base-dn were not specified in the config file
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
Jul  1 10:21:25 sigma2 dhcpd: Wrote 44 leases to leases file.
Jul  1 10:21:26 sigma2 dhcpd: Listening on
LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:14:be:c9/192.168.1/24
Jul  1 10:21:26 sigma2 dhcpd: Sending on
LPF/eth0/00:0c:29:14:be:c9/192.168.1/24
Jul  1 10:21:26 sigma2 dhcpd: Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net


On 7/1/08 10:02 AM, "stephane lepain" <penguindeb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well. I have DNS in the same Guest and now trying to run DHCP.
> Wouldn't that be too much for one guest? BIND is actully running
> nicely in the VM.
> When I "tail -f /var/log/messages", i get the exact same message from
> /var/log/messages. On the top of that when I start DHCP it fails on
> start up.
> BIND running on that guest which is set up on a NAT, wouldn't that
> cause me a problem to run DHCP. They might be using the only NIC
> available from the HOST which is my MAC?
> 
> 
> 2008/7/1 Romer Ventura <rventura at h-st.com>:
>> Not the case. They should work just fine. I run the same setup with Vmware
>> and I have VMGuest that is the DHCP and other Guest as the DNS.
>> 
>> Do "tail -f /var/log/messages" and start the dhcp and see the errors that
>> come up.
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/1/08 9:22 AM, "stephane lepain" <penguindeb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> I come to you as I am really stuck.
>>> I am running a VM under Ubuntu server. I have already installed BIND
>>> that works very nicely but DHCP is just not doing it:)
>>> When I launch the server in my VM, it says that it fails to start.
>>> When I go into /var/log/messages to check for error messages, I don't
>>> get much to work with.
>>> 
>>> " anaconda dhcpd: wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file"
>>> " anaconda dhcpd: wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to lease file"
>>> "anaconda dhcpd: wrote 0 leases to leases file
>>> 
>>> May be I should be looking somewhere else for error message but I
>>> don't where. I have set up my DNS to be authoritative on my network. I
>>> was wondering since the VM is as well using a DHCP Server, wouldn't
>>> they collide with each other?
>>> 
>>> Cheers to all for your help
>> 
>> ------
>> Romer Ventura
>> Network Administrator
>> Houston-Sigma Technologies, L.P.
>> 1333 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land Tx. 77478
>> Voice 281-295-5017
>> rventura at h-st.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

------ 
Romer Ventura
Network Administrator
Houston-Sigma Technologies, L.P.
1333 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land Tx. 77478
Voice 281-295-5017
rventura at h-st.com