dhclient.conf interface stanza and conflicting listing interfaces with dhclient3

Fri Jul 2 23:49:31 UTC 2010

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:32:28PM +0200, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> On 23-06-10 14:05, Jelle de Jong wrote:
> >If tun1 is up and I execute an dhclient3 eth1 an IP is provided
> >trough the tun1 network instead of only the eth1 network.
> 
> Somebody that can help?

Sorry Jelle.  This is a well known sort of design bug in dhclient.
dhclient picks up interfaces named in the dhclient.conf it was
given and uses them.

The workaround for now is to use a separate dhclient.conf per each
interface.

-- 
David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		     you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins
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