DHCP and our hosts

Benny Amorsen benny+usenet at amorsen.dk
Tue Mar 13 09:08:39 UTC 2007


>>>>> "MM" == Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> writes:

MM> [1] AFAIK DHCP cannot be done on aliased interfaces because it
MM> shares a MAC with the physical interface.

The DHCP protocol apparently allows one MAC address to acquire several
IP addresses, with client identifiers. It looks like ISC DHCPD
supports that.

I haven't actually tried it.


/Benny





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