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OpenBSD, dynamic and static IP address on the same interface

0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana May 8th, 2009 in DHCP, OpenBSD

Today I was faced with the following problem: I was trying to configure one of the Ethernet interfaces of an OpenBSD 4.5 box with both a dynamic address leased via DHCP, but also a static IP address. Initially, I tried this:

# cat /etc/hostname.vr2
dhcp
inet 1.1.1.11 255.255.255.0 NONE
up
# sh /etc/netstart vr2

The problem with this approach is that [...]

OpenBSD 4.0: initial impressions

1 Comment Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana January 3rd, 2007 in OpenBSD

Today, the mini-barebone computer that I ordered last week has been shipped. Basically, it consists of an ASUS Pundit P3-PH4 case and motherboard with an Intel LGA775 CPU socket, 4 dual-channel 533/600 DDR2 memory slots, 2 SATA connectors, 1 IDE connector, 1 serial port, 1 parallel port, 8-channel sound card, integrated Intel-based VGA, 4 USB [...]