On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Bryce Stenberg<[email protected]> wrote: > This is have it set to use DHCP to get network address etc, but if no dhcp > server is found within the timeout then set it to an already set manual > configuration instead. > > Does anyone know if this is possible under Ubuntu 9.04?
A good way would be to configure dhclient to have a static lease, which will be used if no DHCP server is available. man dhclient.conf The DHCP client may decide after some period of time (see PROTOCOL TIMING) that it is not going to succeed in contacting a server. At that time, it consults its own database of old leases and tests each one that has not yet timed out by pinging the listed router for that lease to see if that lease could work. It is possible to define one or more fixed leases in the client configuration file for networks where there is no DHCP or BOOTP service, so that the client can still automatically configure its address. This is done with the lease statement. So, edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf, and look at the commented-out stuff at the bottom :-) -jim
