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Re: DHCP and secondaries

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Thu, 16 May 1996 10:57 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Subject: Re: DHCP and secondaries
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X-Comment: Discussion of DHCP for IPv4

> 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. 

ISC dhcpd can do this for dynamic address assignments, and I don't see
any reason why it shouldn't work for static assignments as well.

			       _MelloN_

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