Re: Restrict dhclient to 1 interface?

[Rob Ransbottom <rir@mediaone.net>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Bagdanoff wrote:

> > How do you configure dhclient to only
> > seek servers on specified interfaces?

> Ahh, just did this last night.  In /etc/dhclient.conf: 
> 
> interface "eth0" {
>    send host-name "your_hostname";
>    send dhcp-client-identifier 1:your_ethernet_address;
>     send dhcp-lease-time 86400;
>     }

Thanks.

Another look at the man page revealed the [if0 [ ... ifN]
parameters and my poor first reading of TFM.

Simply "dhclient eth0" restricts the search.  I added
a DHCLIENTSTARTOPTS variable to /etc/init.d/dhcp-client.

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