[Dnsmasq-discuss] Multiple entries in /etc/ethers with same IP not working

Hanno Foest hurga-dnsmasq at tigress.com
Wed Jul 16 13:08:17 BST 2008


Carlos Carvalho (carlos at fisica.ufpr.br) wrote on 15 July 2008 21:11:

> Yes, that's not possible because the server doesn't know that it's the
> same machine, so it cannot give the same IP.

I'd have thought that I just told the server that by giving both MACs
with the same IP in /etc/ethers :)

> You have to tell it by
> making the client send a client-id. Then you can configure dnsmasq to
> give an IP based on the client-id instead of the ethernet address.

Sounds like a good workaround, thanks. I'll look into it.

-Hanno



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