I have a FreeBSD-4.10 host in my network. It's interface is DHCP-configured with a local ip-address, a dns server and a default route. The network is not connected to Internet, so the dns server resolves only local names and the default router only routes local packets. The host sometimes connects to internet via PPPoE. It receives new dns server and default route via IPCP.
The problem is that the new pair of dns/route seems to conflict with the old one.
DNS. I put enable dns and resolv writable in ppp.conf, ppp updates resolv.conf, but dhclient rewrites it in some seconds, leaving only local dns server in it.
You want to change the make_resolv_conf() function in /sbin/dhclient-script.
ROUTER. Default route is configured at startup by dhclient. "add default HISADDR" in ppp.conf will result in error and will not change the route. So we can type "add! default HISADDR" or delete the route first with "delete default". But when ppp disconnects there's no more default route and local packets do not get routed.
You should describe your local network topology using a static route rather than a default route, so that you can add and delete a default route via ppp without breaking anything. Add something like this to /etc/rc.conf:
static_routes="local" route_local="-net 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.1.1"
...assuming your local network has both a 192.168.1.x and a 192.168.2.y subnets, and 192.168.1.1 is a gateway which can get to both networks.
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