On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Kimmo Paasiala <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
The system log /var/log/messages reveals: Jul 27 03:01:30 firewall dhclient[23894]: 192.168.1.200 added to vr0; exiting Why is this done in so bizarre fashion? It is not unusual to want to have a static alias address on an interface that is otherwise configured with DHCP. -Kimmo
