[Olsr-users] AHCP

[Robert Keyes]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Derek C wrote:

> Hi OD,
>
> You mentioned, last month, that you are automatically configuring your
> node's IP addresses based on the MAC address (I think that's what you
> mean).
>
> Would you be able to detail how you do it?  (is it a shell script that
> does it?).
>
> I'm interesting it doing this too if possible to save on having to
> allocate IPs manually - I'm interested to know how you base the IPs on the
> MAC and know that you won't ever have IP duplication.

I don't believe this is possible in IPv4 space. But with a small number of 
nodes, you can make it unlikely that there will be IP duplication.

Considering that most devices of recent manufacture can have their MAC 
address set, it may be better to modify the MAC address to match the IP 
address than the other way around. Doing so also can reduce the IP space 
used, and allow for the use of public IP space. Am I making sense? I can 
give a more detailed explanation if needed.



> thanks,
>
> Derek
>
> On Fri, January 23, 2009 2:40 pm, Outback Dingo wrote:
>> basically a script that runs ipcalc and the mac address of the interface,
>> to create address space
>>
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