Re: Can you specify which interface DHCP should serve on, in /etc/dhcpd.conf , or only via arg?

2018-03-02 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
Hello, t1...@protonmail.ch (Tinker), 2018.03.02 (Fri) 02:36 (CET): > Err, that became too wordy. This is what I wanted to ask: > > The common sense way to run a machine is to run it minimalistic, if not > else then for sleeping well at night. > > Now running DHCPD, I like it not to touch any othe

Re: Can you specify which interface DHCP should serve on, in /etc/dhcpd.conf , or only via arg?

2018-03-01 Thread Tinker
On March 2, 2018 9:36 AM, Tinker wrote: .. > The only thing that's unique about the LAN interfaces is that among all (That should be singular, "LAN interface".)

Re: Can you specify which interface DHCP should serve on, in /etc/dhcpd.conf , or only via arg?

2018-03-01 Thread Tinker
Err, that became too wordy. This is what I wanted to ask: The common sense way to run a machine is to run it minimalistic, if not else then for sleeping well at night. Now running DHCPD, I like it not to touch any other interface than the dedicated LAN interface - makes general sense, does it no

Re: Can you specify which interface DHCP should serve on, in /etc/dhcpd.conf , or only via arg?

2018-02-27 Thread Tinker
Hi Marcus, Thank you a lot for responding. Aha so dhcpd(8) will only listen to the interfaces that correspond to the subnets specified in dhcpd.conf(8), thank you for clarifying. What you say is, that dhcpd will make touch the interfaces that equivalence-match with subnets listed in dhcpd.conf,

Re: Can you specify which interface DHCP should serve on, in /etc/dhcpd.conf , or only via arg?

2018-02-26 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
t1...@protonmail.ch (Tinker), 2018.02.27 (Tue) 07:12 (CET): > Just so I not missed anything in reading the man pages [1]: > > If you have a machine with an external and an internal NIC e.g. em0 and > em1 , and you want to serve DHCP only on em1 , then the only way to do > that is as a dhcpd argume

Can you specify which interface DHCP should serve on, in /etc/dhcpd.conf , or only via arg?

2018-02-26 Thread Tinker
Hi misc@, Just so I not missed anything in reading the man pages [1]: If you have a machine with an external and an internal NIC e.g. em0 and em1 , and you want to serve DHCP only on em1 , then the only way to do that is as a dhcpd argument, e.g. add a line 'dhcpd="em1"' to /etc/rc.conf.local or