Using Dhcp With Manual Address Mac



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Used to use static for network devices and servers, but now I only use it on servers and I'm even debating that. DHCP Reservations are just too stinkin easy to setup and centralizes IP management. Granted, if the DHCP server service ever craps out, I'm screwed, but in 10 years I think I've only seen that happen once and the DHCP server was a static IP so I dialed in and rebooted and all was well.

If you have a large enterprise network, comprises of multiple AD sites, then you can narrow the field down with the -DhcpSite together with the DNS name of your DHCP server in that site. Both the -Mac and the -DhcpSite switches work on wildcard matches so you won’t need the full address or full name of the DHCP server. Mac Manual Dhcp Use DHCP or a manual IP address on Mac On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Network. Open Network preferences for me Select the network connection you want to use (such as Ethernet) in the list. Click the Configure IPv4 pop-up menu, then choose an option: If your address.

I like to call this strategy Dynamically Static. :-)

I have a client on AT&T DSL and AT&T uses something called 'Sticky IP Addressing' for their static IPs. Basically, it's the same concept, a DHCP Reservation is setup on their side for the client network, and voila!

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Many many moons ago, we had a way to trawl through DHCP scopes utilising the netsh tool to find devices on our networks that match a certain MAC address.

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Instead of relying on such an outdated tool that isn’t on Microsoft’s radar to keep alive, I’ve cobbled together a function in Powershell aptly named Get-Mac to perform some duty which added functionality (and no required to log onto DHCP hosts).

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The above function will by default, utilise the Get-DhcpServerInDC to return all your DHCP servers, obtain all their scopes with Get-DhcpServerv4Scope, look through each scopes lease with Get-DhcpServerv4Lease and finally match any lease with the MAC address provided. If you have a large enterprise network, comprises of multiple AD sites, then you can narrow the field down with the -DhcpSite together with the DNS name of your DHCP server in that site. Both the -Mac and the -DhcpSite switches work on wildcard matches so you won’t need the full address or full name of the DHCP server. Hopefully your AD sites have a naming convention which should assist narrowing it down.

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Let me know if you found this one useful in your SysAdmin’ing day or think of improvements11.