From 1a4607f60668a489633a982f6a12b44e8df33868 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Blake Caldwell <blakec@ornl.gov>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 12:58:09 +0200
Subject: ifup: set valid_lft and preferred_lft to forever for static ip

---
 sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth b/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth
index 88a4beba..0a46076b 100755
--- a/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth
+++ b/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth
@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@ else
           ( sleep 2;
             /sbin/arping -q -U -c 1 -I ${REALDEVICE} ${ipaddr[$idx]} ) > /dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null &
         fi
+
+        # set lifetime of address to forever
+        ip addr change ${ipaddr[$idx]} dev ${REALDEVICE} valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
     done
 
     # Set a default route.
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