dhclient information with multiple mac address

Ralph Blach rcblach at blach.dnsalias.org
Sat Mar 11 04:15:26 UTC 2006


Yes, except machine A does all the work,

Machine A Creates the packets DHCP packets for  machine B, C, and so forth.

Chip

Dan Newcombe wrote:

>So basically it sounds like you want to have Computer A send a DHCP 
>request on behalf of computers B and C, and then have computer A get the 
>answer and use whatever it does to set the IP on B and C.
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>You could probably use the Perl Net::DHCP module to create the packet.  
>The tricky part will be convincing machine A to listen for machine b and 
>c's MAC without adversly affecting B&C.
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>Perhaps something along the way of a DHCP relay on machine A could help.
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>Ralph Blach wrote:
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>>yes,
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>>compter A needs to manage several other ethernets on computers B,C..., 
>>(not on computer A  and Computers B, C...  cannot do the DHCP protocal) 
>>, but it has their mac address and can set their ip address address.
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>>Chip
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>>Joerg Mayer wrote:
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>>>On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 07:02:15PM -0500, Ralph Blach wrote:
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>>>>Is there a way, to get dhclient to handle multiple mac address which not 
>>>>have associated with an ethenet interface?
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>>>Is there a way to describe your problem in an understandable way?
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>>>Thanks
>>>    Joerg
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