freeradius 2.1.10 DHCP not responding

[Alan Buxey]

Hi,
> >
> > I'm playing with freeradius acting as DHCP-server - which is a
> > magnificent idea!
> >
> > Got a little problem getting it up and running. Already checked any
> > comments in sources, list archive, recent git patches related to dhcp
> > and my favourite search engine. Also used two different machines with
> > other nic's.
> > Used
> > ftp://ftp.freeradius.org/pub/freeradius/freeradius-server-2.1.10.tar.bz2
> > and followed directions in raddb/sites-enabled/dhcp. Configure, make and
> > make install with no errors/warnings. But radiusd does not react to any
> > DHCP-discover. I can see the discovers coming in via tcpdump but radiusd
> > -X remains quiet:

as Arran says - try making it bind to an interface rather than IP - but I would
suggest that you also check the following - are you running iptables or similar?
(if so, obviously enable port 67/68 UDP) - are you running SELinux or similar?
you might need to tweak that too with new SE policy

alan