From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 5:16:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 078AC37B402 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 05:16:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 44314 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2002 13:20:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.pt.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 13:20:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: "Robert D. Hughes" , Subject: Re: dhclient.conf option problem Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:44:07 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02012507440704.07381@proxy.pt.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 24 January 2002 23:01, Robert D. Hughes wrote: > Has anyone had any luck getting "send dhcp-client-identifier" from > dhclient.conf to actually work? I need to swap out an interface that's > being configured via dhcp, but keep the same IP address. I do not have > access to the dhcp server. Does the DHCP server support this? If the DHCP server in question does not support this, then you can configure the client perfectly and it will never work. > Alternatively, I see from the ifconfig man page that there's an option to > specify a different MAC address. Does anyone know if that option is > compatible with dhcp configuration? Yes, if you change the MAC address it will be a global change to everything on the system. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message