[Dnsmasq-discuss] ether for multiple subnets

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Mon Jun 28 09:21:58 BST 2010


dnsmasq at abaxia.by wrote:
> It seems to not possible to use multiple entries with the same mac-address in 
> the /etc/ethers. Dnsmasq uses the last entry and the others are ignored. This 
> behavior makes some difficulties for laptop users which often migrates from one 
> subnet to another. Is any way to provide different ip-addresses for same mac?
> 

Are you sure? As long as the IP addresses are on different subnets, that
should just work, I think. Do you get the same behaviour if you use

dhcp-host=<ip>,<mac>

in /etc/dnsmasq.conf?

Cheers,

Simon.



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