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

Geert Stappers stappers at hendrikx-itc.nl
Fri Jan 11 17:50:35 GMT 2019


On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:29:13AM +0100, MIchael Schleicher (smicha) wrote:
> On 11.01.19 10:53, john doe wrote:
> > On 1/11/2019 9:49 AM, MIchael Schleicher (smicha) wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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
> 

Thing I would like to known is the name of the virtualisation platform.
Mostly because all those I seen did allow me to define MAC address.


Cheers
Geert Stappers
DevOps Engineer



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