On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Josh Grosse <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-07-26 19:12, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm in the process of migrating my router/firewall system from FreeBSD
>> to OpenBSD and I came across a minor problem. I want to have a static
>> alias address on an interface that is otherwise configured with DHCP.
>> What I had in FreeBSD was this entry in /etc/dhclient.conf:
>>
>> alias {
>>         interface "vr0";
>>         fixed-address 192.168.1.200;
>>         option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>> }
>>
>> This seems to be silently ignored on OpenBSD 5.7 and the dhclient.conf
>> manual page makes no mention of alias declarations. How am I supposed
>> to achieve the same effect?
>>
>> -Kimmo
>
>
> Perhaps something like this in your /etc/hostname.vr0 instead would work
> for you?
>
> dhcp
> !ifconfig vr0 alias 192.168.1.200/32

No, doesn't work. Interestingly doing the alias manually when dhclient
is running and vr0 has a public IP address from DHCP:

sudo ifconfig vr0 alias 192.168.1.200/24

This kills dhclient(8) completely and removes the main address.

Any other ideas?

-Kimmo

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