I have been getting the same IP by simply claiming it...
My box gets the same IP from the firewall each time by default,
and the firewall gets the same IP "consistently" from my outside
network, both of which use dhcp. "Consistently" is entirely based
on my experience, I've never seen re-assignment, using dhcp when
the hardware doesn't change (if I plug my laptop into a different
port on UOnet, I will indeed get assigned a different IP).
In some cases I've set a machine to assume an address in the range
acceptable by the dhcp server, and if there's no conflicts it appears
as though the dhcp server will accept a choice from the client ??
ben
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Bob Miller wrote:
> Has anyone successfully configured DHCP to set a host to a static
> IP address based on its client ID or host name? I couldn't figure
> out how to get this to work.
>
> We occasionally swap our wireless cards around, so I don't want to
> base the IP address on the Mac address.
>
> Another, less pressing, desire is to get dhcpd to serve multiple
> IP addresses to the same DHCP client. Can that be done?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Bob Miller K<bob>
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