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Giacomo1968
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Well, I think I finally figured this out. If you enable private Wi-Fi address then the Mac ignores the router's address reservation setting and picks a Wi-Fi address, seemingly at random.

My router is set to assign Sellotape“Sellotape” the IP address 192.168.0.76. With Privateprivate Wi-Fi address enabled, the Mac picked 192.168.0.70 which, of course, is different from the IP in the hosts file. With private Wi-Fi address disabled, it works:

Fifteen:~ mnewman$ ssh sellotape
Last login: Thu Oct  3 04:56:58 2024 from 192.168.0.78
Sellotape:~ mnewman$

Well, I think I finally figured this out. If you enable private Wi-Fi address then the Mac ignores the router's address reservation setting and picks a Wi-Fi address, seemingly at random.

My router is set to assign Sellotape the IP address 192.168.0.76. With Private Wi-Fi address enabled, the Mac picked 192.168.0.70 which, of course, is different from the IP in the hosts file. With private Wi-Fi address disabled, it works:

Fifteen:~ mnewman$ ssh sellotape
Last login: Thu Oct  3 04:56:58 2024 from 192.168.0.78
Sellotape:~ mnewman$

Well, I think I finally figured this out. If you enable private Wi-Fi address then the Mac ignores the router's address reservation setting and picks a Wi-Fi address, seemingly at random.

My router is set to assign “Sellotape” the IP address 192.168.0.76. With private Wi-Fi address enabled, the Mac picked 192.168.0.70 which, of course, is different from the IP in the hosts file. With private Wi-Fi address disabled, it works:

Fifteen:~ mnewman$ ssh sellotape
Last login: Thu Oct  3 04:56:58 2024 from 192.168.0.78
Sellotape:~ mnewman$
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Well, I think I finally figured this out. If you enable Privateprivate Wi-Fi address then the Mac ignores the router's address reservation setting and picks a WiFiWi-Fi address, seemingly at random. 

My router is set to assign Sellotape the IP address 192.168.0.76192.168.0.76. With Private Wi-Fi address enabled, the Mac picked 192.168.0.70192.168.0.70 which, of course, is different from the IP in the hosts file. With Privateprivate Wi-Fi address disabled, it works:

Fifteen:~ mnewman$ ssh sellotape
Last login: Thu Oct  3 04:56:58 2024 from 192.168.0.78
Sellotape:~ mnewman$

Fifteen:~ mnewman$ ssh sellotape
Last login: Thu Oct  3 04:56:58 2024 from 192.168.0.78
Sellotape:~ mnewman$

Well, I think I finally figured this out. If you enable Private Wi-Fi address then the Mac ignores the router's address reservation setting and picks a WiFi address, seemingly at random. My router is set to assign Sellotape the IP address 192.168.0.76. With Private Wi-Fi address enabled, the Mac picked 192.168.0.70 which, of course, is different from the IP in the hosts file. With Private Wi-Fi address disabled, it works:

Fifteen:~ mnewman$ ssh sellotape
Last login: Thu Oct  3 04:56:58 2024 from 192.168.0.78
Sellotape:~ mnewman$

Well, I think I finally figured this out. If you enable private Wi-Fi address then the Mac ignores the router's address reservation setting and picks a Wi-Fi address, seemingly at random. 

My router is set to assign Sellotape the IP address 192.168.0.76. With Private Wi-Fi address enabled, the Mac picked 192.168.0.70 which, of course, is different from the IP in the hosts file. With private Wi-Fi address disabled, it works:

Fifteen:~ mnewman$ ssh sellotape
Last login: Thu Oct  3 04:56:58 2024 from 192.168.0.78
Sellotape:~ mnewman$
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Well, I think I finally figured this out. If you enable Private Wi-Fi address then the Mac ignores the router's address reservation setting and picks a WiFi address, seemingly at random. My router is set to assign Sellotape the IP address 192.168.0.76. With Private Wi-Fi address enabled, the Mac picked 192.168.0.70 which, of course, is different from the IP in the hosts file. With Private Wi-Fi address disabled, it works:

Fifteen:~ mnewman$ ssh sellotape
Last login: Thu Oct  3 04:56:58 2024 from 192.168.0.78
Sellotape:~ mnewman$