Re: DHCP reserve IPs

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On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Benton E. Cole wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 22:11, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Edward wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > >       host hostname
> > > >       {
> > > >       fixed-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
> > > >       hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
> > > >       hardware ethernet yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy;
> > > >       }
> > > >
> > > > and I thought it used to work, but now only yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy is assigned
> > > > the fixed address.  Instead, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx gets a pool address.
> > > > Should this work, and if not, is there a way to accomplish what I want?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Interesting question.
> > >
> > > Have you tried 2 sections instead of 1 section with two mac addresses?
> > >
> > > e.g.
> > >
> > >         host hostname
> > >         {
> > >         fixed-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
> > >         hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
> > >         }
> > >
> > >         host hostname
> > >         {
> > >         fixed-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
> > >         hardware ethernet yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy;
> > >         }
> > >
> > > I have no idea whether this will work really, just a thought to try.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ed.
> >
> > IIRC, that results in a complaint about duplicate hostnames.  I'm
> > traveling for a few days, but I'll try again at some point.
> >
> You are correct. It complains about duplicate hostnames.
>
> If you slightly change the hostname, for one section, it should work. I
> know it doesn't force the hostname onto the machine. Because, when a
> physical machine name is changed and the MAC is the same we still get
> these addresses pushed out to the machine. I think you have another
> option for that called server-name.
>
> Hope this helps,

Thanks for the tip.  I'll try it next chance I have.

-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs



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