DHCP fails

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, Brad Thomas wrote:

> I have a fresh install of Edubuntu and cannot get DHCP started.  I have 
> two NIC's in the machine.  DHCP fails every single time.  

You mean the start-up script fails or your clients can't get DHCP
addresses?  Any time dhcp init script breaks like that for me there's
usually a good error in one of:

	/var/log/syslog
	/var/log/daemon.log
	/var/log/messages

have a look in there and see does the error make it clear.  If not post it.
If there's no error, post your dhcpd.conf and clarify exactly what fails.

> I have EHT0 setup as DHCP and ETH1 for my main network.  Help!?!?!?

One possible problem is that the ethX device running DHCP doesn't have an
address compatible with the address range it's giving out.  This will cause
it to fail.  The logfile should help,

Gavin