Fedora 8 dhcp server

[asymptote]

Have you found a decent Fedora 8 tutorial for installing and configuring dhcp? I have just recently been assigned to set up a dhcp server so I'm going to be reading the documentation, but I just thought I'd check the forums for something current and tested. Google mostly yields older fedora versions. Thanks!

[WhiteKnight]

hmm.. install dhcpd package thru yum and configure dhcpd.conf accordingly?

config file format shouldnt differ much from other versions and distros. so older version's tutorial might work just as well
after configuration, u just have to start the service and add it to your default runlevel.

[asymptote]

Yes I'm checking out the config file - unfortunately I was using a remote Fedora box and it seems it rebooted or I lost the IP and I can't get back to it till Monday :( I'll keep reading the man pages unless someone else suggests something else :)

[asymptote]

This is not working :( I try starting the service using /sbin/service dhcpd start and I'm getting a "FAILED". Just to see if it would run, I have basic configuration in the man pages:

subnet 239.252.197.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 239.252.197.10 239.252.197.250;
}

Any reason you can think why this wouldn't start? Thanks!

[michaelk]

Look at the logs to see the error messages.
Be sure to edit /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd" to specify the desired network interface you want to serve i.e.

set "DHCPARGS=eth0"

[asymptote]

Sup, MichaelK. Sorry I've been afk with the DHCP issue but I do appreciate your reply. I did modify the configuration file to ensure the correct interface was being used, but I still can't get dhcpd to successfully start. Can you advise of something else I can do to narrow down this problem? Thanks!

[E1PHOTON]

Check out Firestarter, it's a quick and easy solution to dhcpd needs >:}

[asymptote]

There are a lot of quick and easy solutions but i wanna learn to configure dhcpd waaaahhh waaaaahhhh :( I will take a look at Firestarter and thank you for your suggestion.

[michaelk]

Have you looked at the log files? Not really enough information to provide assistance without knowing why dhcpd is failing to start.

[asymptote]

I haven't looked into the log files - I don't even know where they are but I'm sure if I check the man pages I can find them. I tried using something called GAdmin-DHCP. Have you used these before?