From: Marcin Siodelski Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:30:07 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [3539] Updated user guide with the info about address selection on iface. X-Git-Tag: trac3504_base~23^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=443aa70c60e690572faaa60eaf2cc2be6de1fed5;p=thirdparty%2Fkea.git [3539] Updated user guide with the info about address selection on iface. --- diff --git a/doc/guide/dhcp4-srv.xml b/doc/guide/dhcp4-srv.xml index b8c18c8305..a04492d551 100644 --- a/doc/guide/dhcp4-srv.xml +++ b/doc/guide/dhcp4-srv.xml @@ -348,9 +348,20 @@ url="http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/"/>. with explicit interface names: "Dhcp4": { "interfaces": [ "eth1", "eth3", "*" ], ... } -It is anticipated that this will form of usage only be used where it is desired to +It is anticipated that this form of usage will only be used when it is desired to temporarily override a list of interface names and listen on all interfaces. + Some deployments of the DHCP servers require that the servers listen + on the interfaces with multiple IPv4 addresses configured. In some cases, + multiple instances of the DHCP servers are running concurrently and each + instance should be bound to a different address on the particular interface. + The administrator must be able to select this address for each instance. + This can be achieved by appending an IPv4 address to the interface + name using the following notation: + +"Dhcp4": { "interfaces": [ "eth1/10.0.0.1", "eth3/192.0.2.3" ], ... } + Note that it is not allowed to specify more than one address for an interface. +