Old Tired Question: 'Not configured to listen on any interfaces'
Alan Buxey
A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
Thu Feb 24 17:38:40 UTC 2011
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
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