On 06/07/2024 08:16, David Christensen wrote:
I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding
disabling DHCP when using a static IP:
[...]
https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration?action=info
The following sentence:
"Make sure to disable all DHCP services, e.g. dhcpcd."
Was added at revision 97:
From my point of view this warning makes sense. Primary it is a
troubleshooting step if an attempt to configure static has IP failed.
The assumption is that a reader is either aware what network management
tools are installed on their machine or is able to review installed
packages, active services, running processes. DHCP client activity may
appear in logs.
If you have achieved you goal then just skip this step.
A side note: I would consider running dnsmasq on the host configured
specifically as a DHCP server and a caching DNS server for virtual
machines and ignoring other network interfaces.
