On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 17:15 -0400, Stuart Gathman wrote: > Network Manager in Fedora 19 has a Client ID field in the IP4 tab when > configuring a connection. For DHCP servers that support it, this allows > keeping the same lease when swapping hardware without changing the > hardware MAC. > > While this is a relatively recent feature for IP4 DHCP, it is pretty > much the only way to assign a fixed address for IP6 DHCP. And yet, the > IP6 tab doesn't even display the client id! I have to get a dynamic ip, > and then dig through lease files to extract the client-id, and then > convert the format from escaped byte string to hex. Could we have some > way to at least display the client-id in a form accepted by dhcpd6.conf?
For now, you can add the client ID to eg /etc/dhclient6-wlan0.conf which will get read by NM and merged into the final dhclient config that's actually sent to the server. Dan > In the mean time, what is the most reliable procedure using lease > files? It still takes me way too long. Any utilities already written > to scan server lease file and output client id in dhcnd6.conf compatible > form (with assigned dynamic IP for identification)? > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
