DHCP fixed-address

[Ted Lemon]

> Isn't there a way to do my fixed-ip-assignment-by-agent.remoteid by 
> creating
> some smart configfile for the dhcp server?

If you have a small number of remote agents, you can do it by having a pool 
for every remote id, but this is not an efficient solution - the DHCP 
server isn't intended to gracefully handle one pool per client.

> Why wasn't the suggested-address option not built in? Or is it?

It is not.   Things to not arrive complete with every possible option.   As 
the need for a new piece of functionality becomes apparent, someone 
contributes it, or not.   In this case, nobody so far has contributed such 
functionality.

> I was also thinking of 'abusing' the mac-address hash table and use
> the agent.remoteid value instead. That would not leave me with a compliant
> DHCP server ofcourse, but I wouldn't care much as this is the only task the
> DHCP server must do.

This will eventually lead you, or the person who replaces you when you move 
on to another job, to debugging hell.   So you pay up front, or you pay 
later.