Re: DHCP server - map to host names?

From: LHradowy (laura.hradowy@NOSPAM.mts.ca)
Date: 04/22/03 

From: "LHradowy" <laura.hradowy@NOSPAM.mts.ca>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:42:43 -0500

"John Howells" <John.Howells@marconi.com> wrote in message
news:3EA50AC2.3DD2E5CA@marconi.com...
>
>
> Dave Miner wrote:
>
> > This isn't quite true, in that the DHCP server allocates address to a
client's
> > identifier; usually this is defaulted to being based on the MAC address,
but
> > some clients (such as Solaris and the ISC client for Linux and other
Unixes) can
> > be set to send an arbitrary string as the client identifier, and this
could be a
> > hostname in those cases.
>
> Ah, I'd forgotten about that one. So the answer is:
>
> If you can't edit each client configuration or the client configuration
> does not support a user defined client id you can't.
>
> Otherwise:
>
> (i) On a Sun client edit /etc/default/dhcpagent and add a
> "CLIENT_ID=fred" line. On an ISC or other client that allows it do the
> equivalent (and I have no idea what that is!).
>
> (ii) On the Server add a MANUAL entry to the appropriate network table
> with the hex value of "fred" (66726564) as the client id.
>
> But this does assume that (a) it is possible and allowed to edit each
> client appropriately, and (b) that all the clients allow this. In some
> ways having to edit each client negates some of the point of DHCP, since
> if you are going to edit each client you might as well give it its IP
> address anyway, though clearly using DHCP then makes it is possible to
> change the address more easily if the need should ever arise.
>
> John Howells

How would I do this for windows clients?

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