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Subject: Static IP Addresses
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I have a remote backup machine that is on a dynamic IP address =
allocation.  The address doesn't seem to change very often.  However, =
after a few days from a boot, the static aliases on the LAN vanish.  =
Since I only have very infrequent access to it I can't say for sure what =
happened.  The logs seem to indicate that the interface went down and =
then came back up.  However, some of the static aliases were gone.  This =
is a bit of a guess as to when it happened.  I have dhclient.conf set =
with entries like:

alias {
        interface "bge0";
        fixed-address 192.168.0.205;
        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255;
}


I understood from the man pages that was the way to have dhclient add in =
the static addresses if it changed anything.  Is there something more =
that I should have done?

-- Doug