how to find out if an IP address is assigned statically or dynamically?

Tue Feb 12 07:30:37 UTC 2013

On Feb 11, 2013 10:44 PM, "h bagade" <bagadeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to know if there is a way to find out if an interface address is
> assigned by dhcp or statically? For example, any distinctive flag or
> something like that on ifconfig output! or any other way except processing
> dhclient leases files?

As per my limited knowledge, no.
The only reliable way is to look at
/var/db/dhclient.leases.<interface_name> files as you mentioned.

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