Loosing alias IPs

Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET ml at t-b-o-h.net
Sun Aug 19 05:16:22 PDT 2007


> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a FreeBSD 6.2 server that get's his IP address from DHCP
> (although this IP is static). I have also configured 3 more alias IP
> addresses.
> 
> My problem is that anytime the DHCP lease is renewed (with the same IP
> address always), one of the 3 aliases is lost.
> 
> Is this a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> My setup is as follows:
> 
> the IP address that the server gets by DHCP is X.X.139.45
> 
> rc.conf
> ifconfig_em0="DHCP"
> ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet X.X.141.113 netmask 0xfffff000"
> ifconfig_em0_alias1="inet X.X.142.124 netmask 0xfffff000"
> ifconfig_em0_alias2="inet X.X.142.128 netmask 0xfffff000"
> 
> 
	If you know the IP your getting, why not just configure
things to be static?

			Tuc/TBOH


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