> > To answer the question, the host doesn't get the same address because > "multiple MAC addresses on the same line" is NOT the same as a MAC > address with wildcards in it. If you had > > dhcp-host=96:8d:d4:d0:4d:e3,a4:50:46:d0:4d:e3,192.168.0.217 > > then it would work, but > > dhcp-host=*:*:*:d0:4d:e3,192.168.0.217 > > doesn't. > > I can't see why the code shouldn't be altered to make this work, this > is just a case that nobody anticipated. >
I tried with explicit mac-addresses (it's annoying to write 4 versions, but not a big deal if it works), and I got the same result. It's true that I tried this using 2.75, now that I am running 2.85 I can try again (yes, I updated again with the current code from thekelleys.co.uk). > > A possibly more tidy solution to this problem is to configure your > clients to send client-IDs in their DHCP requests. If client-IDs are > present, they totally override MAC addresses, so a client which always > send the same clienr-ID will always be identified and keep the same IP > address, even if its MAC address changes. Of course this only works if > you're OS/DHCP client combination allows configuration of client-IDs. > AFAIK all the common Linux ones do. > > That would be really great, but unfortunately I don't control all the devices, some of them being mobile phones with very little room to configure. Thanks!
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