A Mac address header is provided for manufacturers.
This allows the type of hardware to be recognized and assigned a specific range.
- On the main section, choose your rule according to the listen interface.
- On the main DHCP rule, click on the “Hardware attribution” button.
- Click on “New pool” button.
- Give the Pool name and the range of this attribution.
To avoid conflicts, ranges can't be superimposed on each other, so you need to indicate a unique range to the others.
For example, the main range should be 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.10, the new range 192.168.1.11 - 192.168.1.50, and the next range 192.168.1.51 - 192.168.1.254.
Let's take the example where we want to apply a specific IP range for VMWare virtual machines
- Open your new range; a new “Hardwares” tab appears.
It allows you to import mac card prefixes corresponding to a manufacturer into your rule.
We've added the manufacturer VMWare Inc. so that this rule only applies to Mac cards starting with 00:50:56.
