Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address
On Saturday 08 January 2005 20:58, Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
> the only thing I can imagine is that the DHCP query gets matched against
> _both_ hardware parameters, not one of them... and the interface querying
> the IP address can never match both.
I think that must be it
> Have you tried splitting the host{}-clause in two? If I understand
> correctly, the hostname after the "host" keyword is freely choosable as
> long as you adjust the hostname the DHCP client gets sent back, so it might
> be possible to write something like:
>
> option use-host-decl-names false
above option keeps failing, but fortunately I don't actually need it
> host rabbit1 {
> hardware ethernet 00:06:5b:b7:9c:35;
> fixed-address rabbit.home;
> option host-name rabbit;
> }
> host rabbit2 {
> hardware ethernet 00:06:25:2a:fa:25;
> fixed-address rabbit.home;
> option host-name rabbit;
> }
>
That seems to solve the problem. Thanks
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Alan Chandler
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then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi
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