[systemd-devel] No DHCP server is started with DHCPServer=yes

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mi, 06.05.20 23:43, Francis Moreau (francis.moro at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running systemd v245 (in the host and in the containers) and I
> have 2 containers whose veth link is connected to a bridge.
>
> One container named "c1" uses "DHCPServer=yes" and is supposed to
> provide an ipv4 address to the second container "c2" but for some
> reasons it seems that no DHCP server is started in "c1". At least
> "journalctl -u systemd-networkd | grep DHCP" doesn't show anything
> interesting although the debug logs have been enabled.
>
> I monitored the DHCP traffic in "c1" andI could see the DISCOVER
> requests sent by "c2" but no answer from "c1". So it really seems that
> no DHCP server is running in "c1".
>
> Could anybody tell me how I could make sure that no DHCP server has
> been started and help me understanding why ?

Are you sure your .network files match on the iface properly? What
does "networkctl status" say about the interface?

Lennart

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