Static IP distribution

Sun Jan 28 04:36:53 UTC 2001

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:16:00PM -0500, Eric Sobocinski wrote:
> It's possible theoretically but not in the real world.  Nice idea 
> though.  Your major headache is that DHCP isn't defined to work that 
> way.  :-)  Right now the DHCP model assumes that any static mapping can 
> depend upon a hardware identifier, usually the MAC.  It wouldn't be that 
> hard to define an appropriate DHCP option to substitute something more 
> arbitrary like a VC identifier, but to my knowledge no one has done 
> so.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding either you, Eric, or the situation, but
DHCP client can supply a host name, can they not?  And I thought
servers could use that to look up for a fixed address.

Yes, it's configurable, rather than fixed, but at least it's *there*.

Would this not solve the gentleman's problem?

Cheers,
-- jra
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