On 2015-07-26, Kimmo Paasiala <[email protected]> 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?
I need to do this sometimes too. The only way to do this with dhclient(8) in recent versions of OpenBSD is to fetch the lease, pkill -9 dhclient, then add the alias. Otherwise use an alternative DHCP client from packages.
