Re: Using different hostnames on different interfaces (with dhclient)

[Stefan Puiu <stefan puiu gmail com>]

Hey, this works, thanks a lot!

One correction though: dhcp-send-hostname should be "true", and
dhcp-hostname should be set to the desired hostname. After googling a
bit I found the keyfile ini file format here:
http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html

Stefan.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> So it looks like NM will use the system hostname if the connection
> doesn't provide one (ie, option #1), overriding the send-hostname from
> the config file.  Which kinda sucks, I wasn't expecting that, but due
> some internal architecture we can't distinguish between the system
> hostname and the one from the connection config when DHCP is being
> started.  That's fixable though and we should do it; the goal is for
> options in the dhclient config files to override the system hostname
> (but not configuration hostname as specified below).
>
> For option 1, if your connection is specified using keyfiles (ie, it's
> in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections you can add
> "dhcp-send-hostname=<desired hostname>" key to the [ipv4] block and that
> should work.
>
> Dan
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