Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:53:23 +0200 From: Mykola Dzham <i@levsha.me> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring for 1 static and 1 DHCP interface ? Message-ID: <20101123155323.GA51348@laptop.levsha.me> In-Reply-To: <41757.1290513201@tristatelogic.com> References: <41757.1290513201@tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> I just recently re-jigged my main server/workstation so that instead
> of just having a single interface that talks to the Internet via a
> single static IP, it now has, in addition to that, one other interface
> (and card) that's talking to one of those little black&blue Linksys
> router thingies to which other machines on my local network are connected
> (all using DHCP which is implemented in the Linksys box).
>
> For most stuff the default routing should be out via the original interface
> (and its static IP) but when the main server/workstation wants to talk
> to anything in 192.168.1.0/24, it should instead route those packets
> via the second/newer interface over to the Linksys box, i.e. so that
> this main machine can talk to other stuff on the local network.
>
> So anyway, here's what I have now in my /etc/rc.conf file:
>
> defaultrouter="69.62.255.254"
> network_interfaces="fxp0 rl0 lo0 auto"
> ifconfig_fxp0="inet 69.62.255.118 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
>
> This is problematic for several reasons. First, as I have learned,
> having any interface set to "DHCP" in the /etc/rc.conf file causes
> all sorts of DHCP magic to happen at startup time, and the end result
> of all that magic is that two undesirable things happen:
>
> 1) The /etc/resolv.conf file gets replaced with something that
> causes DNS resolutions to go someplace other than where I want
> them to go, and...
>
> 2) the default route that I attempted to set in the /etc/rc.conf
> file gets clobbered and replaced by a default route obtained
> from the DHCP negotiation on the second interface.
You can totally disable resolv.conf changing and rote setting: put into
/etc/dhclient-enter-hooks file this code:
add_new_resolv_conf() {
echo "doing nothing to resolv.conf"
}
add_new_routes() {
echo "do not set routes"
}
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