[Dnsmasq-discuss] Using Machine Name to Allocate IP Address Rather than MAC Address

[Rune Kock]

On 1/11/07, Eldon Ziegler <eldonz at atlanticdb.com> wrote:
> The man page contains the statement, "--dhcp-host=lap,192.168.0.199
> tells dnsmasq to always allocate the machine lap the ip address
> 192.168.0.199." Where on the target machine do I set the "lap" or
> whatever to use this feature?

On Windows-machines it is simply the computer name as set in the control panel.

On a Linux machine it all depends on the settings of the DHCP-client.
On my Debian-system, I don't think the DHCP-client sends any host-name
at all unless I change /etc/dhclient.conf.


Rune