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dhcpd inside ezjail

I have had all kinds of problems getting dhcpd running properly inside a FreeBSD jail. I finally got it running this morning and wanted to document what I’ve done in hopes that I can recreate it. On the host system I had to allow sockets within jails. This is done by adding this line to your /etc/sysctl.conf: security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1 The above will make it a persistent change, but you’ll also need to make it an immediate change using the sysctl tool directly: sysctl -w security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1 Within the jail I then installed the net/isc-dhcp30-server port. I configured this with just two of the available options. Allow sockets instead of bpf (jails-only) Use base openSSL After this was compiled I configured my /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf and added the following lines to my /etc/rc.conf: ## dhcpd options dhcpd_enable=”YES” dhcpd_flags=”-q” dhcpd_conf=”/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf” dhcpd_ifaces=”” Read more