Re: DHCP related to MAC address

From: Simon Niederberger (sincore@bluewin.ch)
Date: 04/15/02


From: "Simon Niederberger" <sincore@bluewin.ch>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:00:27 +0200

You can get the MAC by
- Using arp -a to see current MAC cache
- Check "Unique ID" of current DHCP leases
- do ipconfig /all on client

If you want to make sure that the client always gets the same IP, create a
reservation on the DHCP server (you need MAC and IP, that's it)

Simon

"tony" <tony@extranc.com> wrote in message
news:ubjhtfi53oehf8@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi:
>
> i'm using DHCP to distribute my private ip to workstations.
> i would like to track down my client MAC address matched
> with ip assisgned to them. (So that they can use the ip obtained
> from DHCP and the ip will be always the same)
>
> Can anyone help out on this one?
>
> Truly appreciated for the time and comment!
>
> tony
>
>



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