From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [9fans] dhcpd Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:15:35 +0200 Message-ID: <3AF26F5605627543BEC429636A522290235B97@rohrpostix.xplain.local> From: "Retzki, Sascha [Xplain]" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 738e345e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >=20 > 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. >=20 Depends - for naming services, this 'the same mac gets the same IP. Always' thing is way simplier than coupling the dhcp-server with the naming service 'somehow'. Now, you can name every terminal, every computer, and still maintain that in one rather central database. I like that, personally - just my 2 eurocents. > - erik >=20 > 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.