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From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2006-09-18 13:00:37
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, I'm glad I can at least answer one question. ;-) > 3) I'll want to run dhcpd on the DL box only on the vlan port, since it > will only provide DHCP services for the phones, but our main Windows > servers will continue to provide DHCP for everything else (saves messing > with interoperability between Linux DHCP and Windows' dynamic DNS, tho' > this looks doable if I really have to). Looking through /etc/init.d/dhcpd, > DL starts DHCPD on interfaces which have DHCP=server > in their interface config, which makes this easy, but can anyone tell me > what the routes being created in the following lines are for ? > > for DEVICE in $DEVICES; do route add -net 255.255.255.255 netmask > 255.255.255.255 $DEVICE > done DHCP used broadcasts for the early communication stages. That's why this route has to be added to the interface where the DHCP server needs to communicate on. - -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkUOmF0ACgkQUcytMSbs+YW8tQCfdSYhNOx1ppuq2HsTJfpt80TB 3U8An1QJdqxpU4cpw+51Pddxhr48C2rE =mlDx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |