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Re: DHCP and secondaries

Erikas Aras Napjus <erikas+@cmu.edu> Thu, 16 May 1996 15:50 UTC

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From: Erikas Aras Napjus <erikas+@cmu.edu>
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Excerpts from netdev.dhcp-v4: 16-May-96 Re: DHCP and secondaries by Sam
Wilson@tattoo.ed.ac. 
> A related question: Does anyone know of a BOOTP or DHCP server that can
> hand out a different IP configuration to the same MAC address depending
> on the value of the gateway address field?  The application is that we
> are considering providing a limited service for people with portables. 
> Depending where they physically connect they obviously need a different
> config and in some ways it would be nice to have single boot server
> rather than one for each possible location. 

This sounds a lot like the CMU DHCP "roam" feature. Certain "privledged"
machines (notebooks, diagnostic machines) are allowed to roam onto
subnets where their normal static BOOTP (or DHCP -- if "static" applies
there) address would live. 

--- Erikas

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