Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Devil Linux and VLAN tagging (+ also Avaya IP Office)

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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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.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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