also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.18.1816 +0100]: > Idea1: It seems strange that you can't use the same interface to dhcp > on the second time. Just render the client impotent so that it does > not change the current parameters.
can you elaborate on this? > Idea2: Create a virtual interface and use DHCP on that. Linux > supports IIRC up to 255 virtual interfaces. (Now you will ask how to > do that and I don't know off of the top of my head. Would need to > look it up. But I recall it being a trivial ifconfig one-liner.) eth0:1 is a virtual interface of eth0, but it has the same MAC address, so it will get the same IP assigned as eth0 did by the DHCP server. a solution might be dummy0... -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system
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