Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-30 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
uck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jasvinder S. Bahra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions List" Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface > Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: > > Chuck, > > &g

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Chuck, I gave this a shot, but this stopped the interface being assigned an IP address at all (i.e... before the change, the interface had a valid IP address assigned by the DHCP server in my cable modem, but after making the change and restarting, the "ifconfig" comman

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-30 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
not matter. Thanks for the suggestion though. Anyone have anymore ideas? Regards, Jazz - Original Message - From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jasvinder S. Bahra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 8:25 PM Subject: Re: Bin

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Terry, I tried adding the interface line to the dhclient configuration file (and then rebooting), but it had no effect. Entering the "sockstat -l4" command showed that local address was still "*:68". "man dhclient" suggests that the interface needs to be specified on

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-30 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
rry Sposato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jasvinder S. Bahra'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:16 AM Subject: RE: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface > Hi Jasvinder, > > I believe if you add the following to /etc/dhcl

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-30 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
MAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 1:02 AM Subject: Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface > > The DHCP reference for ed1 means dhclient is started (thereafter running > > continuously as a daemon), which sets ed1's IP address to that assigned by >

RE: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-29 Thread Terry Sposato
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jasvinder S. Bahra Sent: Monday, 30 July 2007 9:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface Adam, Thanks for responding, but I think theres been a misunderstanding here. The network s

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-29 Thread Adam J Richardson
The DHCP reference for ed1 means dhclient is started (thereafter running continuously as a daemon), which sets ed1's IP address to that assigned by the cable modem. Note that dhclient generally runs as a daemon because it has to handle lease renewals and/or expiration. I have no issues with it r

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-29 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
the IP address assigned to the network card by the DHCP server in the cable modem). Thanks again, Jazz - Original Message - From: "Adam J Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jasvinder S. Bahra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:27 PM Su

Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-29 Thread Adam J Richardson
Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Is there a way of instructing dhclient to listen only on the cable-modem facing network interface? Hi Jazz, I don't find it necessary to run dhclient as a daemon. My server has two interfaces, one wired and one wifi. In my /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" ifconf

Binding dhclient to a particular network interface

2007-07-28 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
One of my machines has two network cards in it - one of which connects to a switch, and the other to a cable modem. The IP address assigned to the switch facing network interface is fixed. However, the IP address assigned to the network interface connected to the cable modem, is dynamically assig