[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 05/13] package/dhcp/S80dhcp-server: allow empty INTERFACES

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Dec 24 14:02:53 UTC 2015


Dear Benoît Thébaudeau,

On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 02:59:31 +0200, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> From: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit at wsystem.com>
> 
> The dhcpd daemon does not require network interface names to be
> specified on the command line.
> 
> >From dhcpd(8):
> "The names of the network interfaces on which dhcpd should listen for
> broadcasts may be specified on the command line.  This should be done
> on systems where dhcpd is unable to identify non-broadcast interfaces,
> but should not be required on other systems.  If no interface names
> are specified on the command line dhcpd will identify all network
> interfaces which are up, eliminating non-broadcast interfaces if
> possible, and listen for DHCP broadcasts on each interface."
> 
> dhcpd exits with "Not configured to listen on any interfaces!" only if
> no requested (those in INTERFACES, or all if empty) non-broadcast
> interfaces matching the subnet declarations in dhcpd.conf are up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit at wsystem.com>
> 
> ---
> Changes v2 -> v3: none.

Applied, thanks.

Thomas
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