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From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dhcpd
Date: Wed,  5 Jul 2006 18:57:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33131f2384d3d7dbca47a53c0c74c765@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8477e7c4c8336277ce599c496cc9c1d8@quintile.net>

i read this as explicitly stating that you must have the ethernet
(mac) address of the machine to be served an ip in ndb.
although this would mostly defeat the purpose of dhcp, so
maybe i'm wrong.

- erik

On Wed Jul  5 18:22:50 CDT 2006, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> A cursory look at the source didn't explain it, and
> the manual infers this should work:
>
> 	 DHCP requests are honored if either:
>           - there exists an NDB entry containing both the ethernet
>           address of the requester and an IP address on the originat-
>           ing network or subnetwork.
>           - a free dynamic address exists on the originating network
>           or subnetwork.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-05 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-05 23:22 Steve Simon
2006-07-05 23:57 ` quanstro [this message]
2006-07-06 13:24 ` Richard Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-06 10:15 Retzki, Sascha [Xplain]
2003-04-24 17:02 David Presotto

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