[plug] Rebooting my box to make changes to DHCP`

[ekuiperba at cc.curtin.edu.au]

Did you try a killall dhcpd first, it just looks like dhcpd is still
running. I have had no problems restarting dhcpd where i use it.


On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Michael Hunt wrote:

> Hiya all,
> 
> Now that I have got all those people's attention who state rebooting is only
> for hardware/kernel updates I have a question with regards the dhcp on my
> RedHat 6.0 server.
> 
> Basically I have a 192.16.1.* subnet being dished out by my server to assist
> in adding machines to my network. The other day I went in to dhcp and made
> some changes to the /etc/dhcp.conf file (basically changed some host details
> for one of the workstations), and went to restart dhcp. I kept on getting
> the following error message:
> 
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCPD $Name:
> V2-BET
> A-1-PATCHLEVEL-6 $
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 The
> Internet So
> ftware Consortium.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCPD $Name:
> V2-BET
> A-1-PATCHLEVEL-6 $
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 The
> Internet So
> ftware Consortium.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already
> in u
> se
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already
> in u
> se
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: exiting.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd:
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: exiting.
> Nov 19 12:26:57 rhhme001 dhcpd: dhcpd startup failed
> 
> I have two IP's bound to eth0 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.254 (box is running
> IPMASQ and operating as an Internet gateway). My question is why do I need
> to do a restart of the machine in order to bring dhcp up again ?
> 
> Michael Hunt
> 
>