DHCP and fixed IP addresses

[J.L.Francois]

It seems like on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:03:38AM -0700, Tim M. Sanders scribbled:

Taken from:
man dhcpd.conf
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fixed-address address [, address ... ];

       The  fixed-address statement is used to assign one or more
       fixed IP addresses to a client.  It should only appear  in
       a host declaration.  If more than one address is supplied,
       then when the  client  boots,  it  will  be  assigned  the
       address  which  corresponds  to the network on which it is
       booting.  If none of the addresses  in  the  fixed-address
       statement  are on the network on which the client is boot-
       ing, that client will not match the host declaration  con-
       taining that fixed-address statement.  Each address should
       be either an IP address or a domain name which resolves to
       one or more IP addresses.

example:

host joe {
            hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:4c:29:32;
            fixed-address joe.fugue.com;
               option host-name "joe";
         }

       As you can see in Figure 2, it's  legal  to  specify  host
       addresses  in  parameters  as  domain names rather than as
       numeric IP addresses.  If a  given  hostname  resolves  to
       more  than  one  IP address (for example, if that host has
       two ethernet interfaces), both addresses are  supplied  to
       the client.


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