Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:44:38 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dave Daine <ddaine@onque.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dinz@videotron.ca Subject: Re: Questions about using dhclient with DHCP Message-ID: <20020219184438.S48401@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020219162729.03b27e58@onque.com>; from ddaine@onque.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:35:40PM -0800 References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020219162729.03b27e58@onque.com>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 04:35:40PM -0800, Dave Daine wrote:
> I am using DHCP. I would like to:
>
> 1) Start up with networking disabled, or rather, with dhclient disabled,
> because my other machine may have already grabbed the only dynamic IP
> address that my ISP will give me.
>
> 2) Start (may be after releasing the lease from my other machine) and stop
> dhclient at will.
>
> I tried bringing the network interface down with "ifconfig dc0 down", but
> "ifconfig -a" keeps on showing the interface as active, and "dhclient:
> send_packet: No route to host" messages keep on popping on my console.
It sounds like it is working. Isn't this what it looks like,
# ifconfig dc0
dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.10.60 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
ether 00:c0:f0:5a:6c:0a
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
status: active
# ifconfig dc0 down
# ifconfig dc0
dc0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.10.60 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
ether 00:c0:f0:5a:6c:0a
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
status: active
Note that it is no longer "UP" in the flags.
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