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On Tuesday 29 January 2008, James wrote: |
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> Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > > > can I set up the network startup so that eth0 first tries to get |
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> > > > address from a dhcp server, and if it doesn't get any, it sets up |
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> > > > with a fixed address? How can I set up this in the /etc/con.d/net? |
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> > > |
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> > > config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) |
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> > > fallback_eth0=( "aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd" ) |
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> > > fallback_route_eth0=( "blah" ) |
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> > As I understand it this only allows for one fallback type of address |
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> > (e.g. 192.168.0.0). If you connect to different routers which have |
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> > different LAN address (192.168.0.0, 192.168.2.0, 10.10.10.0, etc.) then I |
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> > guess you'll need some sort of additional script? |
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> Hello Mick, |
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> I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, but, you make want to read up |
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> on 'net-misc/ucarp' |
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> "UCARP allows a couple of hosts to share common virtual IP addresses in |
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> order to provide automatic failover. It is a portable userland |
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> implementation of the secure and patent-free Common Address Redundancy |
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> Protocol (CARP, OpenBSD’s alternative to the patents-bloated VRRP)." |
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> hth, |
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> James |
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Thank you, I hadn't heard of ucarp before, will look into it. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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