Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:28:56 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Der Tiger <der.tiger.alpine@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [Alpine 2.4] Network Interface Hotplugging
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On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 11:52:16 +0100
Der Tiger <der.tiger.alpine@arcor.de> wrote:

> While dhcpcd accepts multiple static ip_address statements, only the
> last statement prevails nullifying all previous statements.
> Therefore, I see no way to use dhcpcd to assign more than one ip
> address to a single interface.

...
 
> The IPv6 implementation of dhcpcd allows only a single IPv6 address
> per interface. Furthermore, it is a highly unstructured (and therefore
> unrecommended) way to assign the IPv4 address to an interface using a
> static statement in /etc/dhcpcd.conf and retriving an IPv6 address for
> the same interface through IPv6 RS/RA as part of the configuration of
> a DHCP server.

Thanks for clarifying. Also, I'd also guess that when using static ip
is a case when you don't want the ip address removed when cable is
unplugged.

-nc


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