On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Felipe Alfaro Solana
<felipe.alf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Vadim Zhukov <persg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday 07 May 2009 11:57:57 Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>>> Hi misc,
>>>
>>> I've been reading dhclient(8) but still it is not clear to me if
>>> dhclient(8) is supposed to stay in the background to automatically
>>> renew leases. In the manual page it says:
>>>
>>> B B B -d B B B Forces dhclient to always run as a foreground
process.
>>> By de- fault, dhclient runs in the foreground until it has configured
>>> the interface, and then will revert to running in the back- ground.
>>>
>>> So apparently dhclient(8) should be kept in the background waiting for
>>> leases to be renewed. However, if I run "ps ax" I can't see anything
>>> that looks like dhclient(8) is running in the background at all. How
>>> is this supposed to work for DHCP leases for cable/residential users
>>> that are not guaranteed to always keep the same IP?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Check your /var/log/daemon for messages from dhclient. If interface is
>> disabled on dhclient start and dhclient can't enable it, then it'll put
>> its hands off.
>
> There's nothing in the logs. I've found out what the problem is. My
> /etc/hostname.vr2 looked like this:
>
> # cat /etc/hostname.vr2
> dhcp
> inet 10.255.255.1 255.255.255.0 NONE alias
> up
>
> /etc/netstart gets confused about the dhcp and static definitions.
>
Just in case anyone is curious about how I solved the problem:
# cat /etc/dhclient.conf
interface "vr2" {
supersede domain-name "example.com";
supersede domain-name-servers 1.2.3.4;
}
alias {
interface "vr2";
fixed-address 4.5.6.7;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
}
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