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Date:      Wed, 08 Apr 1998 21:02:32 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
To:        "M. Monninger" <markem@primenet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dhcpc and ed3 interface
Message-ID:  <352C4858.62E0F8FA@san.rr.com>
References:  <19980407224839.64875@numachi.com> <3.0.5.32.19980408200628.0099ee50@pop.primenet.com>

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M. Monninger wrote:
> 
> At 01:30 AM 4/8/98 -0700, Studded wrote:
> >       My experience with the wide client was that it was susceptible to the
> >kinds of frustrations you describe. I have put together step-by-step
> >instructions for setting up the ISC client at
> >http://home.san.rr.com/freebd/dhcp.html. Please take a look at that and
> >if you have any feedback I'd be very interested in hearing it.
> >
> I've been running the wide client for a while without problems. However,
> I've been trying to switch to the ISC client but am having problems with
> it. I have two NICs in my machine, ed0 and ed1. ed0 is my internet
> connection that needs dhcp to get the address from my ISP. ed1 is the
> interface to my home LAN, with a static IP address. The problem I have with
> the ISC client is that it works fine in setting up ed0 but I can't get it
> to leave ed1 alone. It insists on setting ed1's IP address to 0.0.0.0. I've
> RTFM'ed everything I can and have tried a lot of stuff in the config file,
> all to no avail. I'm sure it's probably a config problem but I can't see
> it. Any suggestions?

	Yeah, multi-nic support is being improved for the next version. For now
the standard answer is to make default settings for the second one so
that if dhclient does step on it for some reason it will at least put in
what you want it to have. :) Also, starting it with 'dhclient ed0' helps
in some cases.

> I tried the web page but keep getting 404 File Not Found...

	Yeah, I got the address wrong, sorry.
http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/dhcp.html

Doug

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