Hello,
I have strange problem with dhcp, that might be somehow related to firestarter.
But not necessarily directly. I did so many different things with my network
setup simultaneously that I'm not sure, what's causing my current problem.
So what I did was try to convert to using dhcp in my home lan. But at the same
time, I converted from using customized (by the ifconfig package) network
device names back to standard 'ethN' kind of names, and this somehow causes my
current problem. My network device name for my home lan used to be 'lan'. I
configured firestarter to use dhcp on that interface 'lan'. I did however have
some problems with dhcp possibly due to my using non-standard interface names,
so I switched back to using 'eth1' as my lan interface name.
But I still couldn't get dhcp to start. I tried upgrading my dhcp server to the
latest one (dhcp3-server) and what not, but nothing seems to work (I'm using
debian unstable btw). Now I've uninstalled firestarter and purged the
configuration files of it temporarily and try to use dhcp3-server directly to
enable dhcp, and I get this result in my sysconfig when I try to start
dhcp3-server:
Mar 8 13:03:25 server dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Mar 8 13:03:25 server dhcpd: Multiple interfaces match the same shared
network: lan eth1
Mar 8 13:03:25 server dhcpd: Bind socket to interface: No such device
So, somewhere in my config files there's still a dangling reference to that old
'lan' interface that doesn't exist anymore! I've tried to grep through all the
config file in /etc and /var and /usr/share but haven't found anything. I have
a feeling that either dhcp ver.2.0 or firestarter is the source of that
reference but I'm not sure. I ask you guys if you can think of a place, where
this reference might be? I don't understand this, is there possibly a binary
file that grep can't read that might hold the old information?
Thanks in advance,
Juhis
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