Thank you for mentioning "dnsmasq". I do the same thing on my home network and it works very well. Rick
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, at 9:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do >> they do with the contents? > > AFAIK it's mostly unused nowadays. I have such a file on my DHCP > server, where `dnsmasq` reads it (lets me give static IP addresses to > some of my machines, even though they're configured via DHCP, > i.e. they're "dynamically static"). > > > Stefan