[Dnsmasq-discuss] ether for multiple subnets

[dnsmasq at abaxia.by]

On Monday 28 June 2010 11:21:58 you wrote:
> 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>
It seems dhcp-host is ignored after specifying read-ethers option. So I can't 
actually test it right now. I'll try to configure testing environment later. As 
for ethers, yes, I'm pretty sure, only last entry is honored. By the way I'm 
using dnsmasq-2.45 on Debian 5.0.

> 
> in /etc/dnsmasq.conf?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.

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