Mandrake 9 DHCP

[vip8439]

Hey everyone.

Well I've got most of my problems ironed out but I cant get my computer to run as a dhcp server. I'm using webmin and when I try to start the server I get the following error:

Failed to start dhcpd :

Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc9
Copyright 1995-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
/etc/dhcpd.conf line 15: subnet 192.168.0.1: bad subnet number/mask combination.
subnet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
^
/etc/dhcpd.conf line 28: subnet 192.168.0.1: bad subnet number/mask combination.
subnet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
^
/etc/dhcpd.conf line 31: empty shared-network decl
}
^
Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting

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exiting.


My computers on the network are not recieving ip addresses or anything at all.

[pauper]

Your dhcp software is correct:
for an ip address of 192.168.0.1 with a subnet of 255.255.255.0 the subnet layout is:
Host address: 192.168.0.1
Network: 192.168.0.0 (Class C, CIDR/8, 254 hosts)
Network mask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast address: 192.168.0.255

Even if you take it down to a 32 bit mask, the network address is still 192.168.0.0 - there is no legal combination of addresses where the subnet address could be 192.168.0.1

Just change the starting address to 192.168.0.0 and you should be ok.

[vip8439]

Thanks, I did what you said and my dhcp works now. I do get an error in webmin:

Failed to start dhcpd :

Starting dhcpd: [FAILED]

Thats ok though, I'm just glad that it works.