> > i read this as explicitly stating that you must have the ethernet > (mac) address of the machine to be served an ip in ndb. > although this would mostly defeat the purpose of dhcp, so > maybe i'm wrong. >
Depends - for naming services, this 'the same mac gets the same IP. Always' thing is way simplier than coupling the dhcp-server with the naming service 'somehow'. Now, you can name every terminal, every computer, and still maintain that in one rather central database. I like that, personally - just my 2 eurocents. > - erik > > On Wed Jul 5 18:22:50 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A cursory look at the source didn't explain it, and > > the manual infers this should work: > > > > DHCP requests are honored if either: > > - there exists an NDB entry containing both the ethernet > > address of the requester and an IP address on the originat- > > ing network or subnetwork. > > - a free dynamic address exists on the originating network > > or subnetwork.
