Loosing alias IPs

[Doug Barton]

FYI, this isn't really a question for -isp, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
would have been a better choice.

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Pavlos Georgiadis wrote:

> 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"

You probably want to do this either in dhclient.conf or in a 
dhclient-exit-hooks script. Check the man pages to get an idea of how to 
go about this, and ask on -questions if you need more help.

Good luck,

Doug

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