From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 14:42:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426E916A41F for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:42:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from muxas@mail.ru) Received: from mx6.mail.ru (mx6.mail.ru [194.67.23.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B459E43D49 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:42:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from muxas@mail.ru) Received: from [80.243.64.145] (port=8004 helo=[80.243.64.145]) by mx6.mail.ru with asmtp id 1ExQ7s-00035G-00; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:42:01 +0300 Message-ID: <43C848CB.2020809@mail.ru> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:41:47 +0000 From: Maxim Vetrov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Norgaard , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <43C81E6D.5010702@mail.ru> <43C7B4A6.9040004@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <43C7B4A6.9040004@locolomo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: dhclient fixed leases X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:42:03 -0000 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Maxim Vetrov wrote: > >> I can't configure dhclient to use fixed lease on a network with no >> dhcp server. I use my notebook to connect to several different >> networks. Some of them have dhcp servers, some do not. Just tired of >> manual config on the latter. I've done man dhclient.conf and found >> that I can cope with that. so there is my dhclient.conf: >> >> timeout 15; >> retry 180; >> reboot 5; >> >> lease { >> interface "sis0"; >> fixed-address 10.0.1.4; >> option routers 10.0.1.5; >> option host-name "mobile"; >> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.248; >> expire 5 2010/1/1 00:00:00; >> renew 5 2010/1/1 0:0:0; >> rebind 5 2010/1/1 0:0:0; >> } >> >> interface "sis0" { >> send dhcp-lease-time 600; >> send host-name "mobile"; >> request >> broadcast-address,routers,subnet-mask,domain-name,domain-name-servers,time-servers,netbios-name-servers; >> >> } >> >> When it boots these messages are displayed: >> > Trying recorded lease 10.0.1.4 >> > bound: renewal in 125116757 seconds. >> and nothing happen. >> >> The peer's address on the othe side of cross-wired cable is 10.0.1.5 >> netmask 255.255.255.248. When I >> > ifconfig sis0 inet 10.0.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.248 up >> and ping connection is alive. >> >> What do I do wrong? > > > 1st: Which version of FreeBSD do you use? There is significant > difference between 5.x and prior and 6.x and posterior. > > There was a discussion a few weeks ago, see "Wireless NIC in FreeBSD > 6.0", I suggested to try to include a "default" section in the > interface section, but the I never got an answer if this worked. > > Regards, Erik > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I'm on 6.0 release. The "default" will not help - I have several networks without dhcpd. So 'default option routers 10.0.1.5;' will work only for one and fail for others. Regards, Muxas