Re: [gentoo-user] netifrc, configure by SSID and MAC simultaneously?

[Mick]

On Tuesday 18 Apr 2017 16:03:25 Florian Gamböck wrote:
> Hello!
>
> In my wireless home network I use a static IP for my machine. The
> regarding line in /etc/conf.d/net reads as follows (let's assume that my
> SSID is in fact "MySSID"):
>
>     config_MySSID="192.168.0.10/24"
>
> Is there a possibility to configure this IP not only for this specific
> SSID, but also for a specific MAC address of my wireless card? I only
> want my "main" wireless card to have this static IP, if another card
> goes up and connects with the same SSID, it should be configured via
> DHCP.
>
> I tried the following:
>
>     config_MySSID="dhcp"
>     config_001122334455="192.168.0.10/24"
>
> I also changed the order of those two lines, but the SSID based config
> seems to "win" regardless. Also, if this config would actually work,
> then I would have this static IP in every network I change (this is not
> desireable). So I need a logical AND with those two variables, like so:
>
>     config_MySSID="dhcp"
>     config_001122334455_MySSID="192.168.0.10/24"
>
> This would mean the following: Connect to MySSID via DHCP, except when
> using the interface with the MAC address 001122334455, which should get
> a static IP.
>
> Not to mention that I indeed tried this last one, but it didn't work
> either.
>
> So, what are your thoughts? Is this possible via netifrc?

I had to read this message twice and I am not yet sure I understand correctly 
what it is you are trying to achieve.

Do you want whichever NIC of your PC connects first to a specific SSID to 
always obtain IP 192.168.0.10/24 and any NIC which connects second to use 
DHCP?
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Regards,
Mick