Network Setup Question

[Jonathan Horne]

On Friday 10 November 2006 19:17, Doug Hardie wrote:
> I have a bit of an unusual network setup situation.  I have a machine
> that is only used to store backups.  It gets moved around to
> different locations occasionally so it has to be able to live on a
> 192.168.1.x or a 10.0.1.x network without reconfiguration.  I also
> need a fixed last address byte so I can connect to it remotely.  I
> initially set it up with DHCP and then used an alias for the .250
> address on both networks.  That worked, but caused problems for the
> local network in one location.  The particular user couldn't
> understand why sometimes his computer got different IP addresses.  So
> I tried to establish the 192.168.1.250 as the primary address and
> added an alias of 10.0.1.250.  That works  in both environments
> except that there is no default route.  Is there a way to negotiate
> just a default route via DHCP and not an IP address? or is there a
> way to set the default route based on which IP address is in use?
> Thanks.
> _______________________________________________

dhclient.conf can get pretty granular as to exactly what you want from your 
DHCP server.  myself, i use it to get everything, but to ignore the domain 
search mine tries to provide.

man dhclient.conf and you will see tons of options (and some really good 
examples too).

cheers,
jonathan