Network Setup Question

[Doug Hardie]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 19:34, Jonathan Horne wrote:

> On Friday 10 November 2006 19:17, Doug Hardie wrote:
>> I have a bit of an unusual network setup situation.  I have a machine
>> that is only used to store backups.  It gets moved around to
>> different locations occasionally so it has to be able to live on a
>> 192.168.1.x or a 10.0.1.x network without reconfiguration.  I also
>> need a fixed last address byte so I can connect to it remotely.  I
>> initially set it up with DHCP and then used an alias for the .250
>> address on both networks.  That worked, but caused problems for the
>> local network in one location.  The particular user couldn't
>> understand why sometimes his computer got different IP addresses.  So
>> I tried to establish the 192.168.1.250 as the primary address and
>> added an alias of 10.0.1.250.  That works  in both environments
>> except that there is no default route.  Is there a way to negotiate
>> just a default route via DHCP and not an IP address? or is there a
>> way to set the default route based on which IP address is in use?
>> Thanks.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> dhclient.conf can get pretty granular as to exactly what you want  
> from your
> DHCP server.  myself, i use it to get everything, but to ignore the  
> domain
> search mine tries to provide.
>
> man dhclient.conf and you will see tons of options (and some really  
> good
> examples too).

There are lots of options all right, but I couldn't find anything  
that would cause it not to negotiate the IP address.  All of the  
other options are configurable.