DHCP fails

[Brad Thomas]

Hey guys, I got it figured out.  In my dhcpd.conf, I had:
subnet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
I needed to change that to:
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0

After that, I was able to start the DHCP service.

Thanks!
Brad

Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
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