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I have two ethernet cards installed on my Linux (RH 6.2) box running a DHCP server. DHCPD tells me that it is listening for requests on both of my cards.
I want it to only listen to requests on the ethernet card that is for my internal network (eth0) so people from the internet (connected via my second ethernet card - eth1) do not get a response from my DCHP server and so I dont get busted for running a server behind my ISP... ;-)
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
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If you need to start the server with any options you would insert them before the eth0. If you are reading a man page or a help file and you see [anything] it usually means it is optional (but NOT always). You should have a startup script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ (probably named dhcpd). Open it up in your favorite text editor and add the eth0.
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