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I was wondering if anybody has found a way to solve an issue I am having. I am trying to reserve IP addresses for multiple devices that have both ethernet and wifi connections. I want to reserve 2 IP addresses for each device. Is the IP reserved besed on the MAC address or the host name?
Thanks for the information. The router picked up the host name from the device. I went ahead and changed the name and everything is working great now. Thanks for the help.
> I am trying to reserve IP addresses for multiple devices that have both > ethernet and wifi connections.
What's stopping you?
> [...] I want to reserve 2 IP addresses for each device. Is the IP > reserved besed on the MAC address or the host name?
MAC address. And each interface should have a unique MAC address, so the wired and wireless interfaces on a device should have different MAC addresses, allowing you to associate different IP addresses with the two interfaces. For example, I have a Foscam camera with these two address reservations:
Define "host name". A device can have a name, but that may have little to do with networking. In IP, a network interface has an address (and may have a name). If a device has only one network interface, then you can easily associate a network interface name with a host name. If a device has multiple network interfaces, then this simple relationship breaks down. For networking purposes, the network interface is the fundamental object (with its own address and name), not the device.
Thanks for the information. The router picked up the host name from the device. I went ahead and changed the name and everything is working great now. Thanks for the help.
