On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James wrote: > Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get > > > > address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get any, it sets up > > > > with a fixed address? How can I set up this in the /etc/con.d/net? > > > > > > config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) > > > fallback_eth0=( "aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" ) > > > fallback_route_eth0=( "blah" ) > > > > As I understand it this only allows for one fallback type of address > > (e.g. 192.168.0.0). If you connect to different routers which have > > different LAN address (192.168.0.0, 192.168.2.0, 10.10.10.0, etc.) then I > > guess you'll need some sort of additional script? > > Hello Mick, > > I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, but, you make want to read up > on 'net-misc/ucarp' > > "UCARP allows a couple of hosts to share common virtual IP addresses in > order to provide automatic failover. It is a portable userland > implementation of the secure and patent-free Common Address Redundancy > Protocol (CARP, OpenBSD’s alternative to the patents-bloated VRRP)." > > hth, > > James
Thank you, I hadn't heard of ucarp before, will look into it. -- Regards, Mick
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