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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

DHCP server listen on alias interface (eth0:1)

Linux server with more than one IP address on the same interface.

eth0 - 192.168.0.1/24
eth0:1 - 10.1.42.1/24

We want DHCP server to serve IP addresses only from 10.1.42.0/24 . If we do this in config file like this:

 subnet 10.1.42.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
                range 10.1.42.30 10.1.42.90;
                option broadcast-address 10.1.42.255;
                option routers 10.1.42.1;
        }

it will fail to start and produce the following error:

dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth0 (192.168.0.1).

The correct configuration is to use shared-network parameter and define all the networks of the physical interface inside it.

shared-network horizon9net {
        subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        }

        subnet 10.1.42.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
                range 10.1.42.30 10.1.42.90;
                option broadcast-address 10.1.42.255;
                option routers 10.1.42.1;
        }
}