Maybe it's just too late... I'm wondering if I can do something like this in /etc/dhcpd.conf on my DHCP server for a laptop which has a wireless care and an onboard ethernet adapter: # josh's laptop host joplin { hardware ethernet 00:30:ab:20:96:ff; # ma401 wireless card hardware ethernet 00:c0:f0:3d:0a:8d; # onboard NIC fixed-address 192.168.0.2; } I want to have DHCP assign this host to .2 whether it comes in via wireless or wired. dhcpd doesn't complain about syntax but when I go to the logs, but it's not assigning to .2, instead it's using .88: Sep 20 23:37:44 rachmaninoff dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:ab:20:96:ff via eth0 Sep 20 23:37:45 rachmaninoff dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.88 to 00:30:ab:20:96:ff via eth0 Sep 20 23:37:45 rachmaninoff dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.88 (192.168.0.3) from 00:30:ab:20:96:ff via eth0 Sep 20 23:37:45 rachmaninoff dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.88 to 00:30:ab:20:96:ff via eth0 Any ideas? The man page doesn't say if two hardware lines are legal, maybe the first one is getting overwritten by the second. Josh