[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#605657: isc-dhcp-server: The DHCP server fails to start when only alias interfaces have an address

[Ronan Keryell]

Package: isc-dhcp-server
Version: 4.1.1-P1-15
Severity: normal

With the transition from DHCP server v.3 to v.4, the DHCP server does
not want to start if the physical interface (eg eth0) does not have
any address.

In v.3 it was not an issue when there was some interfaces alias (eg
eth0:1) with some matching address.

This configuration may happen when you use VLAN-only support or use
alias interfaces only that go up and down to deal with mobility and do
not want to mess up with the main interface.

Thank you for your support.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.36      Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                  3.4.2       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  isc-dhcp-common              4.1.1-P1-15 common files used by all the isc-d
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-7    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-26      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

isc-dhcp-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages isc-dhcp-server suggests:
pn  isc-dhcp-server-ldap          <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf changed:

-- debconf information:
  isc-dhcp-server/config_warn:
  isc-dhcp-server/interfaces:

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