> You could get creative with the MAC address. Yep. The only trick is that MAC addresses have to be unique for DHCP to match the interface with the right address. A small exec could generate the right entries to put on the NICDEF card in the directory to do that.
Given that, here's a MAC encoding method I've used elsewhere to ensure unique MACs for user-assigned address environments: > Given MAC addr 02000100501D: MACPREFIX(020001): VM system ID 00 (00 -> FF): type of server, gives 256 types 501(000 -> FFF): sequential number of server of this type (65535 unique servers of each type) D: (0 -> F): number of interface on this server It'd be pretty simple to write an q&d exec to do that assignment. Once you do that, you register each interface with netreg once, and you're done. Netreg won't let you register duplicate names or MACs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
