Turning off DHCP

Note that a few of the benefits of your HDA, such as short names, etc. will not work if you disable DHCP on your server.

Here are the DHCP tradeoffs if you would like to only use some of the functionality.

NOTE: For Ubuntu, there is a dhcp bug. To work around it, it must be done manually via the isc-dhcp-server.conf and isc-dhcp-server6.conf files in the /etc/init directory.

Otherwise, the DHCP server in the HDA can be stopped by doing this:

• First turn on Advanced Settings, under Setup --> Settings
• Then go to the Settings --> Servers
• Once there, find the DHCP Server and unselect both "Watchdog. DHCP Server is being monitored 24x7" and "Start at Boot time"
• Then stop it. It will be stopped forever

NOTE: If this does not permanently stop it in Fedora, you can also rename the init script (dhcpd) as a work around. On boot it cannot find it to execute, but you will see an error in the boot log.

In short, a few of the nicer features of your HDA will not be available. You can still point your machines to the DNS server in the HDA and get some of the benefits, like nice URLs for your HDA-provided services. This is not a supported configuration for things like Netboot.

Want to let your HDA handle your DHCP? Here is how to turn off DHCP in your router.