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Date:      Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:34:12 -0700
From:      James Flemer <jflemer@gmail.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fix for dhclient+aliases
Message-ID:  <e973fdb60511021934s173d7e6aj40b8e9a6cde6af4f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051103001239.GA19590@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <20051103001239.GA19590@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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Speaking of dhclient and aliases.  Has anyone sucessfully used the
alias { ... } syntax of dhclient.conf after switching dhclients?  I
used to use the following in my dhclient.conf, but had to comment it
out when the OpenBSD dhclient was imported.

|alias {
|  interface "sis1";
|  fixed-address 192.168.100.2;
|  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
|}

I hope to check out this patch shortly.  Thanks.

-James

On 11/2/05, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> I've got a proposed fix for dhclient interactions with IPv4 aliases.  It
> turns out that my speculation that it was driver issues was wrong and
> that dhclient with reacting to the aliases themselves.  I suspect there
> may be issues with some drivers, but that's not the main problem.
>
> This patch adds a flag which causes dhclient to ignore address changes
> that it didn't cause.  Does this seem like an acceptable solution?  I'd
> probably add an rc.conf variable similar to background_dhclient.
>
> -- Brooks



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