Why use dhcpd.interfaces or flags at all? In current, and maybe even 4.2, dhcpd will detect interfaces automatically.
Rod Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:43:55 +0100, Kasper Revsbech wrote: > > >Hi > >I have some problems with my dhcp server, and is trying to debug the setup. > >I would like to have a subnet on each interface and therefore dhcpd to > >span both interfaces. > >For that purpose I use /etc/dhcpd.interfaces where i have: > >vr0 > >vr1 > >But i can't find a man page on this file so I can't see if it make a > >difference whether I write: > >vr0 vr1 > > > >or > > > >vr0 > >vr1 > > > > > >So my question is: > >Is there a difference ? > NO > > >Is it just me who can't find documentation on this ? > > NO but the file is self documenting. The supplied file says: > # $OpenBSD: dhcpd.interfaces,v 1.1 1998/08/19 04:25:45 form Exp $ > # > # List of network interfaces served by dhcpd(8). > # > # ep0 > # ed0 le0 > # de1 > > That should tell you something. It is effectively a combination of your > alternatives except that it deals with four interfaces. > > When I discovered that file I started using it and, because there was > no man page I started writing one. The reason I stopped was because, > whilst that file is itself very simple, the process by which it is used > is complicated and unable to be used in a restart of dhcpd. > > For me dhcpd.interfaces is deprecated. It is simpler to use > dhcpd_flags="if0 if1" which does not require the parsing that > dhcpd.interfaces requires to allow its free format. > > Restarting still means entering the command and the list of interfaces > e.g. > #dhcpd if1 if2 > but I don't know of many cases where more than a few ifs are used. > Those users could script their command if it's too hard to do from > memory. > > OK? > > > > > >BTW: > >I use openbsd 4.2 ;) > > > > > >Kind regards: > >Kasper Revsbech > > > > Replies to the list (if any) are sufficient, thanks. > > Rod/ > /earth: write failed, file system is full > cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device -- It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules. --William Strunk
