On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:29 PM Lee Nelson <lnel...@nelnet.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, Allan Streib wrote: > > > Lee Nelson <lnel...@nelnet.org> writes: > > > >> I had considered some late-running script that would query the MAC's of > >> each NIC and then configure them accordingly or rewrite the hostname.* > >> files and call netstart on them, but that just seems sloppy and > >> unreliable. > > > > What about DHCP? It supports MAC-specific configurations. > > > > Allan > > > Very good point, except in my case, this machine would be the dhcp server. >
You could run scripts to set the IP address based on the MAC with this in each hostname.axenN file: !/path/to/script axeN And then write that script to pick the IP address based on the MAC. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse