dhclient exiting when I add an alias to an interface

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 14:50:27 +0930 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:38 UTC

I've been playing with a WRT54G which defaults to an IP of 192.168.1.1 t i
but my network is 10.0.2.0/24 so I have been adding an alias manually.
 However I find that dhclient exits when I do this - it reports this
Jul  1 23:23:41 inchoate sudo:   darius : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/usr/home/darius ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/ifconfig bfe0 alias 192.168.1.100
Jul  1 23:23:41 inchoate dhclient[1152]: connection closed
Jul  1 23:23:41 inchoate dhclient[1152]: exiting.

It seems a bit odd to me that it does this. If I want dhclient to exit I'll kill it myself :)

Is it supposed to do this by design? 

Thanks.

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