Thanks Peter. I'll see how I can deal with this from the router.

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Peter Memishian <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>  > Can you assign a MAC address to IPMP devices?
>
> No.  By design, IPMP interfaces are IP interfaces and IP interfaces are
> assigned IP addresses, not hardware addresses.
>
>  > Problem is, when the ipmp interface requests a DHCP address it doesn't
>  > send a MAC address, thus I cannot assign fixed IP addresses from the
>  > router.
>
> When the IPMP interface requests a DHCP lease, it will include a DHCP
> client identifier.  This identifier is what any conforming DHCP server
> must use to identify a client.  If you want a specific identifier, you can
> set it using CLIENT_ID in /etc/default/dhcpagent; see dhcpagent(1M).
>
> --
> meem
>

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