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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 -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 804 5015
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