On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 Edward Smith wrote: > I would like be able to set a default for the addresses in > /etc/ethers. Which reminds me. When I had an /etc/ethers defining > addresses from 192.168.5.100 to 200 AND a line like this > > dhcp-range=192.168.5.100,192.168.5.200,2h > > People were getting double leases. So the guy who was assigned .100 > by ethers would get 100 and also someone who had no entry in ethers > would get 100. So now I just have ethers and no dhcp-range statements > in use.
Let's suppose that guy has got a PC with a Network Interface Card and the MAC address of that NIC is 00:12:34:56:78:9a If at _start-up_ your /etc/ethers file contains this line 00:12:34:56:78:9a 192.168.5.100 AND your /etc/dnsmasq.conf file contains this line dhcp-range=192.168.5.100,192.168.5.200,2h then that NIC with that MAC address (and only that) will get the 192.168.5.100 IP address. Have you ever seen the man of ethers - for example at http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ethers Good luck, George.
