[geeks] dhcpd question

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue May 1 12:14:56 CDT 2007


Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I have this laptop which has two network interfaces, one of which is 
>> 802.11g, and the other is gigabit ethernet.  Say I want the machine to 
>> get the same IP address no matter which network it attaches to.  Is 
>> there any way to tell dhcpd to DTRT?  I've been looking, and I can't 
>> seem to find the proper syntax.
> 
> ...
>         host laptop-eth0 {
>                 hardware ethernet       00:10:a4:d2:e3:51;
>                 fixed-address           10.24.32.50;
>         }
> 
>         host laptop-eth1 {
>                 hardware ethernet       00:15:c5:5d:08:df;
>                 fixed-address           10.24.32.50;
>         }
> ...
> 
> 
> You'll be fine as long as you don't try to connect both interfaces at once.

Excellent.  Thanks a lot.

Peace...  Sridhar



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