Josh Trutwin wrote: > But this was not valid syntax, having two hosts the same. If I use > something like "joplin2" for the second entry would that cause any > issues with the hostname for joplin? I am not sure if the host name > entry in dhcpd.conf needs to match the actual hostname of the machine > or if it's just a dumb label and I can call it foobar if I want. I think it does matter, but the real issue here isn't DHCP [1] it's your network config. As far as I know you cannot (or probably don't want to) assign the same subnet to two or more interfaces. Let's say: eth0 = # ma401 = 192.168.0.0/24 eth1 = # onboard NIC = 192.168.1.0/24 Then you could have joplin0 = 00:30:ab:20:96:ff = 192.168.0.2 on the wireless net joplin1 = 00:c0:f0:3d:0a:8d = 192.168.1.2 on the wired net And finally set an alias for joplin to point to joplin0 or joplin1 depending on which was in effect (using /etc/hosts or a proxy DNS server like pdnsd). FWIW I usually leave the vanilla hostname (e.g. joplin) point to 127.0.0.1 (or in some cases update a FQDN via a DHCP exit hook). HTH, --Tom [1] http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/dhcp/