Roaming option

Shane Turner <turner@snoopy.ucis.dal.ca> Thu, 16 May 1996 18:52 UTC

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Somewhere in the ether Erikas Aras Napjus said:

> 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 

Could you give me (and I suppose anyone else who happens to be interested)
a little more of an idea of what "roaming" is?

At the moment, we have no subnets with roaming set, or any hosts
with the ro flag.  We can still take a dhcp client with a static
assignment in the bootptab and tell it to release it's lease, then
plop it down on another subnet with free dynamic addresses.

Each network is only labeled as registered|dhcp.

Ciao,
	Shane

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Shane Turner - NOC Assistant - Shane.Turner@Dal.Ca - 902-494-1873
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada