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New Which is Exactly why I used the MAC address.
Changeable to keep it where it should be.

0FF1CE000001
CAFE01000001
0FF1CE018765
CAD37000F001
BADB0550F001

Assign a MAC to a cubicle. Easy peasy.
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New Seems overengineered to me.,
Might as well just use "OFFICEDT001", "ENGPC002", etc.

In all my years of sysadmin I never had to use ARP to locate a machine physically - I got off my fat ass and LOOKED for it :)


Peter
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New Yeap...
Exactly. 19,000 students screwing the machines up, 2400 Computers in gangs of 30+, Master browser wars, napster traffic, RIP poisoning... You name it.

Now, try to find the culprits, most of the proggys used the machine names with fun activities. Arp lookup on routers and switches sometimes the only way to find them. Trace it down to the active port it was on. Then goto the closet trace the wire, to the patch, goto the room the patch went to, find that port... hence the machine.

Keeping Inventory is also many times more useful. (We used actual MACs though).

How many USERS and MACHINES were YOU talking about?
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Set him on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
New My case 15k winders boxen nationwide
named by location floor cube jack xreffed with the static ip and mac addy and current assigned owner for inventory.
t make model and serial
hanx,
bill
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New Re: Yeap...
Circa 400-ish computers, 200-ish users over two sites. Granted, my users weren't as wilfully destructive as yours :)


Peter
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New O peanut, I thee sledge
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     Computer naming schemes. - (Silverlock) - (38)
         having worked in large scale enterprises just a couple of - (boxley)
         I named them the MAC address. - (folkert) - (21)
             I like that idea. - (Silverlock) - (20)
                 I don't - (deSitter) - (19)
                     Agree with Ross. -NT - (jbrabeck)
                     Concur. - (pwhysall) - (6)
                         Which is Exactly why I used the MAC address. - (folkert) - (5)
                             Seems overengineered to me., - (pwhysall) - (3)
                                 Yeap... - (folkert) - (2)
                                     My case 15k winders boxen nationwide - (boxley)
                                     Re: Yeap... - (pwhysall)
                             O peanut, I thee sledge -NT - (deSitter)
                     I never name them after users or jobs. - (Andrew Grygus) - (5)
                         Re: I never name them after users or jobs. - (deSitter)
                         Heh. - (mmoffitt)
                         Theme names - (JayMehaffey) - (2)
                             I've always cautioned to be careful with names. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                                 Re: I've always cautioned to be careful with names. - (deSitter)
                     Sure... good reason TO use it. Thanks. - (folkert) - (2)
                         Re: Sure... good reason TO use it. Thanks. - (deSitter) - (1)
                             I don't want to get into a pissing war. - (folkert)
                     Re: MAC address conveys no new information. - (a6l6e6x) - (1)
                         Sure, like FCC ID -NT - (deSitter)
         When I named computers - (orion)
         Planets, car names, table of elements, movie and book chars - (lister) - (13)
             Ineptium? -NT - (Another Scott) - (1)
                 I only used the real element names, no made up ones -NT - (lister)
             Dubnium? Bohrium? -NT - (drewk)
             Boron? -NT - (imric) - (9)
                 DING! -NT - (lister)
                 That IS "Bohrium", kinda, AFAIK: It's named for Niels Bohr. -NT - (CRConrad) - (7)
                     .......... - (imric) - (6)
                         This is why.... - (pwhysall)
                         Re: .......... - (deSitter) - (2)
                             Nononono. - (pwhysall)
                             ROFL! -NT - (imric)
                         Oh - then WTF is boron named for? - (CRConrad) - (1)
                             But you must admit bohrium would be more dense. :) -NT - (a6l6e6x)

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