From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 11 03:57:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE06316A403 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:57:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoot.lafn.org (zoot.lafn.ORG [206.117.18.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A52A43D45 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:57:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (pool-71-109-167-24.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.167.24]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoot.lafn.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kAB3ussE054870 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) In-Reply-To: <200611102134.14061.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <720B687A-66B6-497A-9F16-9D01B7B1441A@lafn.org> <200611102134.14061.freebsd@dfwlp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Doug Hardie Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:56:55 -0800 To: Jonathan Horne X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/2185/Fri Nov 10 03:04:49 2006 on zoot.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Setup Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:57:01 -0000 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.