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Asked: 2014-07-20 23:04:17 +0800 CST

Windows DHCP MAC-Range to Scope allocation

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I wonder if there is any options to map a specific Range of MAC addresses to a specific DHCP address scope.

The thing is, I want a specific scope for address allocation to bridged Virtual Machines (Hyper-V , VMWare).

eg : 

MAC="0015d5*" => Scope="192.168.254.0/24"
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1 Answers

  1. Windows DHCP Server (2012) supports policies.

    See: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831538.aspx

    Basically, you create a policy, establish an IP range, and assign MAC addresses to the policy.

    Update: The closest thing that Windows server DHCP Policies would allow, as far as "MAC wildcarding" goes is probably specifying a Policy based on a vendor class. Keeping in mind part of the MAC defines a manufacturer for example. So I suppose if your DHCP scope could use an "obscure vendor" of your choice, you could assign MAC addresses within the vendor. Often the MAC for a specific product starts off with the same set of characters. Not a precise fix, but it might be a work-around.

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