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Karolis T.
Asked: 2009-06-22 06:25:24 +0800 CST

Debian interfaces file - ignore gateway and dns entries from dhcp

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In gentoo, this is as simple as:

dhcp_ethX="nodns nogateway"

How should I go about this in the interfaces file?

networking debian dhcp

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

    check the line:

    #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;

    and uncomment it and set whatever dns servers you want to use

    then in the request section below there will be something like this:

    request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
        domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name,
        netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu;

    remove domain-name-servers and routers, that should remove the dns server and router/gateway requests via dhcp

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  2. While not doing exactly what you've asked for, the ifmetric package may provide a better solution.

    sudo aptitude install ifmetric

    Then in your /etc/network/interfaces file assign metrics to your interfaces. Note that not having a metric is the same as having a zero metric.

    allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
    metric 1

allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

    The above makes it so that when eth1 is plugged in, its routes will take precedence over routes from eth0. This may be better because you allow the routes to failover, so that it will still have a default route even if the eth1 interface is unplugged.

    This doesn't affect dns settings, so depending on exactly what you want you may still have to uncomment and amend the line in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf:

    #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;

    and remove domain-name-servers from the request list that immediately follows.

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  3. I don't think there's an exactly analagous command for /etc/network/interfaces; you'll have to set things up the way you like via the post-up command, most likely.

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  4. If you control the DHCP server then set the settings you want for this specific host based on the MAC address, otherwise setting a post-up script in /etc/network/interfaces is probably the simplest option

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