MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

[Paul Lussier]

klussier at comcast.net writes:

> 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 :-)

I've always assigned a different hostname to different NICS, so, we've
got hostnames like dell-01 and airdell-01, and mac-01/airmac-01.  It
solves the problem nicely...
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Seeya,
Paul