MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

[Mark Komarinski]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:25:07PM +0000, klussier at comcast.net wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm setting up a DHCP server to give out specific ip addresses to certain hosts based on MAC address. 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? ( The answer is no, but I'm looking forward to the creative suggestions to dealing with this sort of issue :-)

Dynamic DNS?

-Mark
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