[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCP, how to ignore the client MAC address?
john doe
johndoe65534 at mail.com
Fri Jan 11 09:53:49 GMT 2019
On 1/11/2019 9:49 AM, MIchael Schleicher (smicha) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> On 10.01.19 22:25, wkitty42 at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 1/10/19 3:26 PM, Michael Schleicher wrote:
>>> As I said, for Linux VM's, I can set a uniq Client-ID that helps, but on
>>> Windows you can not set define a Client-ID (as far as I know).
>>
>> isn't this the machine name? when i was supporting winwhatever, the
>> install generated a machine name... that is the name i saw used in
>> DHCP requests... it is the name that was added to the DNS so queries
>> on it would return its current IP...
>>
>>
>
> I have just checked on my environment what's in the dnsmasq.leases file:
>
> 1547246444 00:50:56:85:23:ea 10.198.10.223 win-vm 01:00:50:56:85:23:ea
> 1547276503 00:50:56:85:f1:86 10.198.10.37 linux-vm 01:00:50:56:85:f1:86
>
> As you see the Client-ID (5th field) is the MAC + "01:" as prefix.
>
You previously said that the hostname is always the same, as ilustrated
by the above they are not (win-vm vs linux-vm)?
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John Doe
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