[strongSwan-dev] Query about ikev2/dhcp-static-mac

[Fan Du]

On 2014年04月02日 16:56, Martin Willi wrote:
>> >  If I want to add another host, i.e., Tina along with Dave, who also
>> >  need a static mac address in DHCP server configuration, how does this
>> >  static mac address come out in the first place before any IKE contact?
> The idea is not to pre-configure your DHCP server with these static MAC
> addresses, but just to have persistent IP leases for each identity. We
> do it in the test cases just for reproducibility.
>
>> >  I read the code, chunk_mac_inc performs SipHash-2-4 when IKE contact
>> >  actually happens.
> Of course you can write a tool that generates the MAC from the identity
> using the same algorithm, but this is probably more complicated than
> required.
>
>> >  Yes, dhcp-static-client-id test is quite straight forward.
> If your DHCP server can handle it, you really should go for that
> dhcp-client-identity option to pre-define IPs for identities.

Yep, that's way to go in production.
Thanks for your information! Martin

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