DHCP: keep a lease forever?
I got a simple problem. My local IP addresses keep changing (didn't have this problem before until a firmware update), and I don't want them to. I got these spammy winboxes that greedily race for to steal my FreeBSD's lease. I'm using a simple 4-port linksys router here. It's configuration is about useless. Let's say I wanted to be 192.168.1.170 for argument's sake. I turn everything off (router + computers). Set my 'starting IP' to 170. Fire the FreeBSD machine up first, let it get 170. Then I turn the dumb winboxes on, and who cares what they have they arn't important. Like a couple of days later, I'll type ifconfig and suddely I got 172 on my FreeBSD box (192.168.1.172) instead of 170. I could turn DHCP off, but then my dhclient takes really really really long to find the network (but it does find it, eventually). How can I setup a more static system here without the long wait for dhclient? Anything in dhclient.conf I can put in there? I want to disable dhcp, but I need to figure out how to efficiently get the connection going on, and basically, I havn't owned FreeBSD in the pre-dhcp era, so I wouldn't know how. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP: keep a lease forever?
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I got a simple problem. My local IP addresses keep changing (didn't have this problem before until a firmware update), and I don't want them to. I got these spammy winboxes that greedily race for to steal my FreeBSD's lease. I'm using a simple 4-port linksys router here. It's configuration is about useless. Let's say I wanted to be 192.168.1.170 for argument's sake. I turn everything off (router + computers). Set my 'starting IP' to 170. Fire the FreeBSD machine up first, let it get 170. Then I turn the dumb winboxes on, and who cares what they have they arn't important. Like a couple of days later, I'll type ifconfig and suddely I got 172 on my FreeBSD box (192.168.1.172) instead of 170. I could turn DHCP off, but then my dhclient takes really really really long to find the network (but it does find it, eventually). How can I setup a more static system here without the long wait for dhclient? Anything in dhclient.conf I can put in there? I want to disable dhcp, but I need to figure out how to efficiently get the connection going on, and basically, I havn't owned FreeBSD in the pre-dhcp era, so I wouldn't know how. I would think that the best way to do this would be to add a static IP to your rc.conf file. It's pretty simple edit rc.conf and change the line which says ifconfig_yourinterface0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 changing the address to suit your situation. It might then also help if you alter the DHCP servers address range so that you don't accidentally get conflicts. HTH LukeK -- Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP: keep a lease forever?
On Jun 16, 2004, at 00:02, Dave wrote: Let's say I wanted to be 192.168.1.170 for argument's sake. I turn everything off (router + computers). Set my 'starting IP' to 170. Fire the FreeBSD machine up first, let it get 170. Then I turn the dumb winboxes on, and who cares what they have they arn't important. Like a couple of days later, I'll type ifconfig and suddely I got 172 on my FreeBSD box (192.168.1.172) instead of 170. I could turn DHCP off, but then my dhclient takes really really really long to find the network (but it does find it, eventually). How can I setup a more static system here without the long wait for dhclient? Anything in dhclient.conf I can put in there? I want to disable dhcp, but I need to figure out how to efficiently get the connection going on, and basically, I havn't owned FreeBSD in the pre-dhcp era, so I wouldn't know how. Another poster replied with how to switch to static addressing. Note that to do that, you need to assign the static address OUTSIDE the range (scope) that your DHCP server (Linksys router) is offering to clients, or it will get stepped on. The other way to accomplish what you want is to set up a DHCP lease reservation. You configure the DHCP server to associate a specific MAC address with a specific IP address in the scope. The server will then only assign that IP address to a DHCP request from the client with that specific MAC. Either approach requires configuration of the DHCP server. My Linksys router supports both settings. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
