MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

[Paul Lussier]

klussier at comcast.net writes:

> As I stated, the usual case is a laptop that has a wireless a wired
> interface. It's the same machine, and needs to be reachable by
> hostname whether it is on wireless or wired.

The host should never be using both wired and wireless simultaneously.
(granted, this does happen, and when problems occur, the solution is
always "turn one of them off :)

There is no reason you can't assign a different hostname to each NIC.
You can still access that host regardless of which NIC it's using, you
just access it using a different hostname.  Besides, using a different
hostname makes you logging crystal clear as to whether the problem was
happening via wireless or wired networks, which means one less
question you need to ask the user.
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Seeya,
Paul