Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:16:43 +1000 From: "Terry Sposato" <terry@sucked-in.com> To: "'Jasvinder S. Bahra'" <bbdl21548@blueyonder.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface Message-ID: <001101c7d23e$ea6e2200$bf4a6600$@com> In-Reply-To: <000601c7d238$065da370$0600010a@atlantis> References: <002301c7d10a$09ee5180$0600010a@atlantis> <46ACF835.7040402@crackmonkey.us> <000601c7d238$065da370$0600010a@atlantis>
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Hi Jasvinder, I believe if you add the following to /etc/dhclient.conf your problem will be resolved. Interface "ed1"; Then reboot or alternatively restart your network and you should finding it only binding to that interface. Regards, Terry -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jasvinder S. Bahra Sent: Monday, 30 July 2007 9:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface Adam, Thanks for responding, but I think theres been a misunderstanding here. The network setup on my machine is working correctly. My switch-facing network card has a fixed IP address, while the cable-modem facing network card is assigned one by the DHCP server built into the cable modem. This is achieved by the following settings in /etc/rc.conf ... network_interfaces="ed1 ed2 lo0" ifconfig_ed1="DHCP" ifconfig_ed2="inet 10.1.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" The DHCP reference for ed1 means dhclient is started (thereafter running continuously as a daemon), which sets ed1's IP address to that assigned by the cable modem. Note that dhclient generally runs as a daemon because it has to handle lease renewals and/or expiration. I have no issues with it running as a daemon. However, it is listening on all interfaces (which I do have an issue with), i.e. running the command "sockstat -l4" on my system returns... USER: root COMMAND: dhclient PID: 267 FD: 4 PROTO: udp4 LOCAL ADDRESS: *:68 FOREIGN ADDRESS: *:* As you can see, local address is listed as "*:68", which means its listening on port 68 on all interfaces. I want to instruct dhclient to only listen on my cable-modem facing network card. If this were the case, issuing the "sockstat -l4" command would return as above, but with local address saying "<<CABLE-MODEM-ASSIGNED-IP-ADDRESS>>:68" (where <<CABLE-MODEM-ASSIGNED-IP-ADDRESS>> is, unsurprisingly, the IP address assigned to the network card by the DHCP server in the cable modem). Thanks again, Jazz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam J Richardson" <fatman.uk@gmail.com> To: "Jasvinder S. Bahra" <bbdl21548@blueyonder.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Binding dhclient to a particular network interface > Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: > > > > Is there a way of instructing dhclient to listen only on the cable-modem > > facing network interface? > > Hi Jazz, > > I don't find it necessary to run dhclient as a daemon. My server has two > interfaces, one wired and one wifi. In my /etc/rc.conf: > > ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" > ifconfig_ndis0="WPA DHCP" > > [You might recognise ndis as the Project Evil driver for using Windows > network drivers under BSD.] > > When the netstart script runs, those two lines have the effect of > starting wpa_supplicant on ndis0, and running dhclient on both interfaces. > > Supposing I temporarily assign a static IP to fxp0, I can revert to DHCP > by typing: > > $ sudo dhclient fxp0 > > which does some DHCP magic and gets a lease. > > If I take ndis0 down I find I have to run /etc/netstart again to get it > back up, but you didn't want to know that. > > HtH > Adam J Richardson _______________________________________________ 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"
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