[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 3/8] package/dhcp/S80dhcp-server: allow empty INTERFACES

Benoît Thébaudeau benoit at wsystem.com
Fri Aug 21 16:45:14 UTC 2015


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>
---
 package/dhcp/S80dhcp-server | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/dhcp/S80dhcp-server b/package/dhcp/S80dhcp-server
index ec4aad5..fad6a36 100755
--- a/package/dhcp/S80dhcp-server
+++ b/package/dhcp/S80dhcp-server
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ CFG_FILE="/etc/default/dhcpd"
 # Sanity checks
 test -f /usr/sbin/dhcpd || exit 0
 test -f /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf || exit 0
-test -n "$INTERFACES" || exit 0
 
 case "$1" in
 	start)
-- 
2.1.4



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