Re: dhcpd 3.1.2 on NetBSD/i386 5.0.1

[Ray Phillips <r.phillips%uq.edu.au@localhost>]

Chuck:

> On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Ray Phillips wrote:
> > subnet 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.240 {
> >    option subnet-mask 255.255.255.240;
> >    option broadcast-address 169.254.0.15;
> >    pool {
> >        range 169.254.0.2 169.254.0.14;
> >        default-lease-time 604800;   # default lease 7 days
> >    }
> > }
>
> 169.254/16 subnet is reserved for link-local autoconfiguration (cf 
> ZeroConf / Bonjour).  It wouldn't surprise me if ISC's dhcpd refuses 
> to deal with that subnet range.

Using this subnet does work on the other machine I mentioned.

>   Try a RFC-1918 subnet instead....

I've tried that but the symptom was the same.


Ray