Is there an obvious way to determine a client identifier from the MAC
address, other than looking at the DHCP bindings?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Marko Milivojevic <[email protected]>wrote:

> Not really. You can use "hardware-address" only for BOOTP clients. If
> you're dealing with a DHCP client, one that actually embeds
> client-identifier (option 61), IOS will ignore hardware-address
> configuration. Generally speaking, in this day and age, you'll always
> use client-identifier.
>
> --
> Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
> Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:57, marc abel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a bit of confusion about creating manual bindings in DHCP.
> >
> > Say I have a mac address of CC1E.CC1E.CC1E.
> >
> > If it is a windows machine could I use:
> >
> > hardware-address CC1E.CC1E.CC1E
> >
> > But if it were a Linux or IOS client I would need:
> >
> > client-identifier 01CC.1ECC.1ECC.1E
> >
> >
> > Is that correct?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Marc
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