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Date:      22 Jun 2000 00:33:33 +0200
From:      Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys sockio.h src/sys/net if.c src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.8 ifconfig.c
Message-ID:  <5lzooek6ki.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: Josef Karthauser's message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:42:52 %2B0100"
References:  <200006162014.NAA12344@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000617011757.C4271@pavilion.net> <010101bfd886$a4e23a50$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> <20000619094252.H22172@pavilion.net>

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Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:05:39PM -0400, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> > 
> > > Horray!  At last there's some hope of getting dhcp to give me the same
> > > lease irrespective of which pccard ethernet card I plug in :).
> > 
> > You can already to this by specifying the DHCP client-id for your machine.
> > Most DHCP servers will honor that and since it is under your control, you
> > don't need to hack the MAC address to obtain the same lease even when you
> > change you ethernet card.
> > 
> 
> How do I specify my unique key to dhclient?  The version currently in FreeBSD
> doesn't appear to have any options for this.
> 
> Joe

        option dhcp-client-identifier <string>;

or

        option host-name <string>;

See dhclient.conf(5).

/assar


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