Are you sure, that the request from your printer has option 61?

With regards
Kings

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Joe Astorino <[email protected]>wrote:

> I never got that impression. Like I said, I have multiple clients setup on
> a Cisco DHCP server that use DHCP client and are configured using hardware
> address on the server side. One example is my HP 4050N network printer.
> The printer setup specifically has it configured for DHCP on and BOOTP
> off.  It is using hardware address in the configuration and works fine
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Kingsley Charles <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> So, "hardware address" can be only used with bootp request.
>>
>> With regards
>> Kings
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Joe Astorino 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It really depends more on the client making the DHCP request.  If it is
>>> a windows machine, you will need to configure the client-identifier.  UNIX
>>> / Linux variants and most others things can use hardware address fine.  For
>>> example, I have a LAN setup right now where all the windows machines are
>>> hard set using client id and network printers, unix machines, etc use
>>> hardware address just fine.  They all use DHCP and not BOOTP
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Kingsley Charles <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> If I want to configure manual binding that doesn't working with
>>>> hardware address. Instead, if I specify the client identifies, it works.
>>>>
>>>> ip dhcp pool cat
>>>>    host 10.20.30.40 255.255.255.0
>>>>    hardware-address 0001.0002.0003
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The snippet below, claims that hardware address can be used with bootp
>>>> requests only. Logically, I feel that should be the case because bootp
>>>> request doesn't have options field. In the case of DHCP request, the option
>>>> 61 is used to carry client identifier. Hence, it seems, the IOS expect
>>>> client identifies to be configured, if it a dhcp request.
>>>>
>>>> Comments please.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Snippet from
>>>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2/ip/configuration/guide/1cfdhcp.html#wp1001108
>>>>
>>>> Router(dhcp-config)# client-identifier unique-identifier
>>>>
>>>> Specifies the unique identifier for DHCP clients. This command is used
>>>> for DHCP requests.
>>>>
>>>> Router(dhcp-config)# hardware-address hardware-address type
>>>>
>>>> (Optional) Specifies a hardware address for the client. This command is
>>>> used for BOOTP requests.
>>>>
>>>> With regards
>>>> Kings
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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>>
>
>
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>
> Joe Astorino
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>
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