Loosing alias IPs

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:34:49AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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.

Also, aliased Ip addresses must be configured with netmask /32

> Good luck,
> 
> Doug
> 
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