Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:12:29 +0000 From: Maxim Vetrov <muxas@mail.ru> To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dhclient fixed leases Message-ID: <43CAC8CD.5090903@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <43C904D3.1090001@locolomo.org> References: <43C81E6D.5010702@mail.ru> <43C7B4A6.9040004@locolomo.org> <43C848CB.2020809@mail.ru> <43C904D3.1090001@locolomo.org>
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Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> Maxim Vetrov wrote:
>
>> I'm on 6.0 release. The "default" will not help - I have several
>> networks without dhcpd. So 'default option routers 10.0.1.5;' will
>> work only for one and fail for others.
>
>
> Well, in that case I have dificult seeing how fixed leases will help
> you, how should dhclient choose which fixed lease to use? One fixed
> lease or one default would work.
>
Hi,
This is an excerpt from 'man dhclient.conf':
"The DHCP client may decide after some period of time (see PROTOCOL
TIMING) that it is not going to succeed in contacting a server. At
that
time, it consults its own database of old leases and tests each one
that
has not yet timed out by pinging the listed router for that lease
to see
if that lease could work. It is possible to define one or more fixed
leases in the client configuration file for networks where there is no
DHCP or BOOTP service, so that the client can still automatically
config-
ure its address..."
I excluded other fixed lease declarations from my conf for clarity.
Regards,
Muxas
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