[KLUG Members] Firewall packages & DHCP related question.

members@kalamazoolinux.org members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:09:36 -0400


Quoting adam@morrison.iserv.net:
>>>>That's where I hit the snag.  It comes with "udhcpd", a mini DHCP
>>>server.  I cannot get it to run twice, once for each NIC, or to serve 
>>>>up different info to the two NIC's.
>>>>Anyone know a way to get udhcpd to serve up info for two subnets?  Or
>>>>maybe I should try and replace udhcpd with the dhcpd that comes on
>>>>Redhat, but the floppy free space is very limited.  Or maybe it's time
>>>>to move on to Devil Linux . . .    Any thoughts?
>>> Usage: dhcpd [-p <UDP port #>] [-d] [-f] [-cf config-file]
>>>             [-lf lease-file] [if0 [...ifN]]
>>>Did you try specifying different config an lease files -
>>>dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcpd.eth0.conf -lf /tmp/lease.eth0 eth0
>>>dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcpd-eth1.conf -lf /tmp/lease.eth1 eth1
>>Ah, but floppyfw doesn't come with "dhcpd", it comes with "udhcpd" which
>>is a mini dhcp client/server.  udhcpd's config file and command line
>>parameters are completely different.  It appears to support "interface"
>>in the config file, but I haven't got it to work yet.
>>I don't think there is room enough on the floppy for the real dhcp.  :-(
>The above from a floppyfw bz2 package downloaded from the floppyfw contrib 
>section.  I'm not certain what the package name was,  but I thought it was 
>udhcpd. Could be wrong, and I can't check from here.

The dhcpd.bz2 is 40869b.  Off hand I don't recall if there is enough room for
that on the defautl floppy.