MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Thu Dec 1 09:39:00 EST 2005


 > However, some machines, usually laptops (one wireless,
 > one wired), have 2 NICs and 2 MAC addresses.
 > Hoever, the machine can only have one host name in DNS.
 > Can I assign the same IP address to multiple MAC addresses?

You could always do hostname.domain and hostname-2.domain or 
hostname-wifi.domain.

But why have the same IP on two different MACs? or even the same hostname?



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