Monitoring and Ignoring Network Interfaces for DHCP Service

By default both dhcpconfig and DHCP Manager's Configuration Wizard configure the DHCP server to monitor all the server system's network interfaces. If you add a new network interface to the server system, the DHCP server automatically monitors the new interface when you boot the system. You can then add any networks that will be monitored through the network interface.

However, DHCP Manager also allows you to specify which network interfaces the DHCP service should monitor and which it should ignore. You might want to ignore an interface if you do not want to offer DHCP service on that network.

If you specify that any interface should be ignored, and then install a new interface, the DHCP server ignores the new interface unless you add it to the list of monitored interfaces in DHCP Manager.

The dhcpconfig utility does not allow you to ignore a network interface.

This section includes procedures for ignoring a network interface and monitoring a new network interface using DHCP Manager's Modify Service Options dialog box, which is shown in the following figure.

Figure 11-4 Interfaces Tab of Modify Services Options Dialog Box