Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:56:55 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Setup Question Message-ID: <F1387D89-88E9-4735-A864-DC61E466B55A@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <200611102134.14061.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <720B687A-66B6-497A-9F16-9D01B7B1441A@lafn.org> <200611102134.14061.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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On Nov 10, 2006, at 19:34, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Friday 10 November 2006 19:17, Doug Hardie wrote: >> I have a bit of an unusual network setup situation. I have a machine >> that is only used to store backups. It gets moved around to >> different locations occasionally so it has to be able to live on a >> 192.168.1.x or a 10.0.1.x network without reconfiguration. I also >> need a fixed last address byte so I can connect to it remotely. I >> initially set it up with DHCP and then used an alias for the .250 >> address on both networks. That worked, but caused problems for the >> local network in one location. The particular user couldn't >> understand why sometimes his computer got different IP addresses. So >> I tried to establish the 192.168.1.250 as the primary address and >> added an alias of 10.0.1.250. That works in both environments >> except that there is no default route. Is there a way to negotiate >> just a default route via DHCP and not an IP address? or is there a >> way to set the default route based on which IP address is in use? >> Thanks. >> _______________________________________________ > > dhclient.conf can get pretty granular as to exactly what you want > from your > DHCP server. myself, i use it to get everything, but to ignore the > domain > search mine tries to provide. > > man dhclient.conf and you will see tons of options (and some really > good > examples too). There are lots of options all right, but I couldn't find anything that would cause it not to negotiate the IP address. All of the other options are configurable.
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