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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:49:16 -0500
From:      Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@DataIX.net>
To:        hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
Cc:        h bagade <bagadeh@gmail.com>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how to find out if an IP address is assigned statically or dynamically?
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Just a OOB thought...

But couldn't you adjust a dhclient script to be run up success and assign a d=
escription to the interface that the address was dynamically configured by D=
HCP.

Wouldn't scale well in a large deployment but then again it might for you.

BOL

--=20

 Jason Hellenthal
 JJH48-ARIN
 - (2^(N-1))


On Feb 12, 2013, at 2:30, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrot=
e:

> On Feb 11, 2013 10:44 PM, "h bagade" <bagadeh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> Hi all,
>>=20
>> 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 processin=
g
>> dhclient leases files?
>=20
> As per my limited knowledge, no.
> The only reliable way is to look at
> /var/db/dhclient.leases.<interface_name> files as you mentioned.
>=20
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