Assign fixed addresses for a group of hosts

[Simon Hobson]

Reinhard Brandstaedter wrote:

>Well, that's the same as if I'd add a static definition for every host,

More or less, except that the leases go through the normal lifecycle 
and ddns works properly.

>which is what I want to avoid.
>Assume I have 8 machines with MAC addresses
>xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:[01-08]
>and I want them to be assigned IP addresses
>192.168.1.[101-108]
>without explicit "host" entries in the dhcpd.conf.
>I'm thinking of a "adaptive host" statement like:
>
>host jboss-$X {
>	hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:$X
>	option host-name "jboss-$X";
>         ddns-hostname "jboss-$X";
>	fixed-address 192.168.1.10$X
>}
>
>Where $X is "calculated" via dhcp-eval.

Can't do I'm afraid.