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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:05:41 -0700
From:      Ryan Merrick <sandshrimp@comcast.net>
To:        Don <mistif@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DHClient with Multiple ip's
Message-ID:  <3F481D75.4060005@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20030822184653.00ba3590@mail.comcast.net>
References:  <5.2.1.1.0.20030822184653.00ba3590@mail.comcast.net>

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Don wrote:
> I am attempting to have dhclient grab two ip's from comcast.  I already 
> have them allowing me two ip's for my account and dhclient is working so 
> far grabbing the one ip.  I know I have to set up the dhclient.conf with 
> the pseudo section, but I am lost as what to do with the 
> dhclient-script.  It has to be different as to not drop the main 
> interface ip configuration, but everything I do seems to just assign the 
> same ip to the iface twice.   Does it have to alias the second ip?  Are 
> there any suggestions you can give me?
> 
>  FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p13 #22
> isc-dhcp3-3.0.1.r11
> 
> 
> Thank you for any help you can give,
> 
> Don
> 
Hello,

I tried this a year ago with Attbi. The second IP has to be aliased to 
interface with a netmask of 255.255.255.255 . One problem I had was that 
DHCP would not assign two IP addresses to one MAC address.  I was able 
to get two addresses but I could only use one at a time.

-Ryan Merrick



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