JackOfAll wrote: 
> Plenty of routers out there that can be configured to ignore the client
> MAC and allocate an IP based on Client ID. I can't be the only person
> who does this. Two dhcp clients send the same Client ID and the router
> is configured to allocate a specific IP to that Client ID, they both get
> the same IP.
> 
> NB. Not that this is the problem here. The WB interfaces aren't sending
> a Client ID. I was just thinking out loud, remembering that last report
> that the wireless interface was given the same IP as the wired.

An well implemented DCHP server does not use thing like client iD's. A
good DHCP server must be compliant with RFC  2131.  
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt. 
Client ID's do not exist in the TCP/IP suit.


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