[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCP, how to ignore the client MAC address?

[MIchael Schleicher (smicha)]

Hi John,

On 11.01.19 10:53, john doe wrote:
> 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)?
> 

That are 2 different systems. (1 Windows and 1 Linux VM). It's just a 
example


Thanks
Michael