host declaration: Either hardware or dhcp-client-identifier will always match, but never both?

Harald A. Irmer Harald.Irmer at kit.edu
Wed Dec 9 19:22:16 UTC 2015


Forgot to add: for ip economy we'd like to use the same ip - one host 
declaration - for both usages, i.e. the line "fixed-address 
xxx.yyy at kit.edu" should be added.

Am 09.12.2015 um 20:15 schrieb Harald A. Irmer:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to have a host declaration thus:
>
> host nb2-smith {
> hardware 00:11:22:33:44:55;
> option hostname "nb2-smith";
> option dhcp-client-identifier "smith\nb2 at vlan111";
> ...
> }
>
> Why this?:
>
> Two concurrent independent uses:
>
> 1. User Smith connects with his notebook and gets the static lease 
> dependent on its hardware address, "00:11:22:33:44:55"; the notebook 
> will NOT send the client identifier "smith2\nb2 at vlan111"; we will 
> assume that the notebook sends a client identifier which is DIFFERENT 
> TO "smith2\nb2 at vlan111".
>
> 2. User Smith's notebook is not connected to its vlan but is going to 
> set up a vpn connection from outside; the multiple VLAN vpn server 
> with delegated address management (yes there's one!) then send's a 
> DHCP-Request with the client identifier "smith2\nb2 at vlan111"; for sure 
> the vpn server's hardware address is DIFFERENT TO 00:11:22:33:44:55.
>
>
> Will this work, that either hardware or dhcp-client-identifier will 
> always match, but never both the same time?
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Harald
>

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