I am trying to set up a pxe boot server on a Debian 6.0.3 Squeeze machine that gives images of PLoP Linux. I was following a tutorial from http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux/networkboot-linux.html#pxel12 . When I try to start dhcpd (from package dhcp3-server), I get the following: No subnet declaration for eth0 (10.0.0.0). • *Ignoring requests on eth0. If this is not what you want, please write a subnet delclaration in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment to which interface eth0 is attached. ** Not configured to listen on any interfaces! My /etc/dhcpd.conf is identical to that in the tutorial save for a few changes: host testpc { hardware ethernet 00:0C:6E:A6:1A:E6; fixed-address 10.0.0.250; } is instead host tablet { hardware ethernet 00:02:3F:FB:E2:6F; fixed-address 10.0.0.249; } My /etc/network/interfaces is: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 And this is my /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server: # Defaults for dhcp initscript # sourced by /etc/init.d/dhcp # installed at /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server by the maintainer scripts # # This is a POSIX shell fragment # # On what interfaces should the DHCP server (dhcpd) serve DHCP requests? # Separate multiple interfaces with spaces, e.g. "eth0 eth1". INTERFACES="eth0" which I copied to /etc/default/dhcp3-server as well, unsure which it would check. I also tried setting the ip in /etc/network/interfaces as 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2, but it produced the same result.