DHCP - One host multiple IPs

a NAS box that can't have a static ip?

I'm really curious as to what the mfg is on that..

Robert Mueller wrote:

I also can't understand, why someone can buy such a thing..

Robert,

~ is it possible to assigne a host (one mac address) more then one ~ static IP. The reason is, that a NAS is not abel to configure with a ~ static IP. This NAS has 2 NICs but only one MAC Address and I'd like ~ to assign this NAS 2 static IPs. ~ ~ My DHCP "Server" is a Cisco Catalyst 6506 E.

Should be able to get this working if you put the 2 NICs into different VLANs.

Aaron

How can it have 2 NICs and only 1 MAC address? Surely each NIC will have its own address as each NIC controller will have it embedded on the chip.

More to the point why does it have 2 NICs, from the documentation what is the purpose of the second NIC? and as someone else has commented what is the manufacturer/model of the NAS.

Ste

Having one MAC address for the box is a perfectly valid configuration, and is in fact how for instance Sun workstations/servers *used to be* configured. It will work fine as long as the NICs are on different Ethernet segments, and the MAC addresses of the different segments are kept separated at the switch (or whatever) where they are connected. It is no longer very common.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, snipped-for-privacy@nethelp.no