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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:44:07 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Robert D. Hughes" <rob@robhughes.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: dhclient.conf option problem
Message-ID:  <02012507440704.07381@proxy.pt.com>
In-Reply-To: <B95B566BD245174196CA4EE29E5818831B6464@HEXCH01.robhughes.com>
References:  <B95B566BD245174196CA4EE29E5818831B6464@HEXCH01.robhughes.com>

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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

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