Subject: DHCP does not support virtual ethernet interfaces in Linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.428 (Entity 5.428) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 Content-Length: 488  Discovered via Support ticket 4357 from BlueCat Networks.
https://support.isc.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=4357

Upon examination:  dhcpd does not catalog virtual ethernet interfaces during
interface discovery and thus will not listen or offer service in a subnet served
only by a virtual ethernet interface.

May also affect Solaris:  see Bugs ticket 17965:
https://bugs.isc.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17965