Question about DHCP client with multi-interface.

[Beech Rintoul]

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 12:36, Yaning wrote:
> All,
> My system have three network cards, interface are
> fxp0, fxp1, em0. If I set one interface with static IP
> address at install time, such as:
> em0 IP = 10.20.16.59
>
> then I enable one interface with DHCP, such as,
> running command:
>
> dhlient fxp0
>
> Then I reboot system. After system boot up, fxp0
> assign an IP address by DHCP server.
> But the static ip address on em0 is gone.
> How can I correct this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yaning

Put the following in /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig_em0="inet 10.20.16.59 netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"

remove any other ifconfig_ em0 or fxp0 lines and reboot.

Beech

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