Loosing hope.. dhcp is not working :( HELP !

[fordfasterr]

I decided to take the plunge and rid myself of fedora core on my nat server..

I had dhcp working as well as firestarter (handles nat & firewalling).

So i did a knoppix hdinstall with the newest release...

downloaded all relevant packages and setup the dhcpd.conf file... restarted the dhcp service... and I get errors...

It refuses to start... so i read the syslog file and sure enough it says that i have an error in my script. I also made a point to look at the /etc/default/dhcp file and adde "eth1" to the list...

here is my dhcpd.conf file:

ddns-update-style interim;
ddns-updates on;
ddns-ttl 30;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.110 192.168.0.120;
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 86400;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
option ip-forwarding off;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name-servers 207.69.188.187,
207.69.188.186;
one-lease-per-client on;
deny client-updates;
}


and here is my syslog error when i try to start dhcp..



Jul 3 11:17:51 web_box init: Trying to re-exec init
Jul 3 17:18:35 web_box dhcpd: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 1:
expecting a parameter or declaration.
Jul 3 17:18:35 web_box dhcpd: ddns-update-style
Jul 3 17:18:35 web_box dhcpd: ^
Jul 3 17:18:35 web_box dhcpd: Configuration file
errors encountered -- exiting
Jul 3 17:18:35 web_box dhcpd: exiting.
Jul 3 17:20:14 web_box dhcpd: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 1:
expecting a parameter or declaration.
Jul 3 17:20:14 web_box dhcpd: ddns-update-style
Jul 3 17:20:14 web_box dhcpd: ^
Jul 3 17:20:14 web_box dhcpd: Configuration file
errors encountered -- exiting
Jul 3 17:20:14 web_box dhcpd: exiting.
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 1:
expecting a parameter or declaration.
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: ddns-update-style
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: ^
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 2:
expecting a parameter or declaration.
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: ddns-updates
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: ^
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: /etc/dhcpd.conf line 3:
expecting a parameter or declaration.
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: ddns-ttl
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: ^
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: /etc/dhcpd.conf line
15: expecting allow/deny key
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: ^Ideny client-updates;
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: ^
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: Configuration file
errors encountered -- exiting
Jul 3 17:30:57 web_box dhcpd: exiting.



I hope someone can help me with this.

[fordfasterr]

ok... nobody answered me but i figured out the problem...which led to MORE problems, which I also figured out...

problem 1. DHCPD wont start and gives a ton of errors... I fixed it by removing the ddns line. I re-organized the file to look like this and it worked:

dhcpd.conf:

option subnet-mask 255.255.0.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.255.255;
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 86400;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option domain-name-servers 207.69.188.187,
207.69.188.186;
option ip-forwarding off;
one-lease-per-client on;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
range 192.168.0.110 192.168.0.120;
}

I also had to edit the /etc/init.d/dhcp script to contain INTERFACES="eth1" instead of "eth0". Even though I added "eth1" to /etc/default/dhcp it did not set eth1 to be the dhcp network...

lastly, after i had everything setup, i set the static IP on eth1 and rebooted. sure enough, knoppix set eth1 to dhcp again... so i could not figure out what script its doing that from... so i added my own network startup script to /etc/init.d and it goes like this:

/etc/init.d/start_nat :

#!/bin/bash

ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0

/etc/init.d/./firestarter start #starts my firewall & Internet sharing for my network...
/etc/init.d/./dhcp start # starts the dhcp server once everything else is up and running...


I added the start_nat script to run levels 3 and 5... rebooted and BAAAAM !!!!!!! It works perfectly... all of my hosts are getting IP addresses and browsing the net ! YAY !