Using different IP config than what DHCP provides

John R. Levine johnl at iecc.com
Fri May 7 14:56:38 UTC 2010


>> than the default one DHCP offers.  It is a pain to have to kill
>> dhclient and do the ifconfig and route commands manually.
>
> There are enough hooks in dhclient-script(8) to do this, assuming you
> have some way for the system to recognize where it is programatically.

Ah, right.  It looks like can put it in /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks, check 
for the SSID and change $new_host_name,  $new_ip_address, 
$new_subnet_mask,  $new_broadcast_address, and $new_routers.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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