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Turing Pi

Has anyone tried to allocate IP addresses based on which slot the node is inserted into?

I imagine most people would implement this by configuring a DHCP server with a static lease for each node by its MAC address, but of course that would require foreknowledge of slot<->MACaddr.

In the DHCP world, there's something called "option 82," which is a field that's inserted into DHCP requests by *switches* to indicate the port that received the DHCP request. The idea is the DHCP server can use this to learn the physical location of a client (for e.g. verifying subscriber status or assigning a unique IP to each port). I bet the TP2's RTL8370 could be made to support option 82 -- albeit with a lot of work -- if there's enough demand for such a feature. 🤔

would be a nice option... especially if the nodes are all identical peers; in that case the only differentiating factor would be the node slots