Which is Exactly why I used the MAC address.

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Post #157,567 by folkert 5/29/04 3:16:55 PM Reply	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. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Give a man a match, he'll be warm for a minute. Set him on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Post #157,577 by pwhysall 5/29/04 3:41:52 PM Reply	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 [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #157,610 by folkert 5/29/04 5:57:25 PM Reply	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? -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Give a man a match, he'll be warm for a minute. Set him on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Post #157,617 by boxley 5/29/04 6:42:36 PM Reply	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 Time for Lord Stanley to get a Tan questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #157,668 by pwhysall 5/30/04 3:49:01 AM Reply	Re: Yeap... Circa 400-ish computers, 200-ish users over two sites. Granted, my users weren't as wilfully destructive as yours :) Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #157,582 by deSitter 5/29/04 3:54:48 PM Reply	O peanut, I thee sledge -drl

Computer naming schemes. - (Silverlock) - (38) - May 28, 2004, 10:05:44 AM EDT

having worked in large scale enterprises just a couple of - (boxley) - May 28, 2004, 11:30:15 AM EDT

I named them the MAC address. - (folkert) - (21) - May 28, 2004, 07:27:24 PM EDT

I like that idea. - (Silverlock) - (20) - May 28, 2004, 09:11:45 PM EDT

I don't - (deSitter) - (19) - May 29, 2004, 10:39:05 AM EDT

Agree with Ross. -NT - (jbrabeck) - May 29, 2004, 12:41:06 PM EDT

Concur. - (pwhysall) - (6) - May 29, 2004, 01:54:09 PM EDT

Which is Exactly why I used the MAC address. - (folkert) - (5) - May 29, 2004, 03:16:55 PM EDT

Seems overengineered to me., - (pwhysall) - (3) - May 29, 2004, 03:41:52 PM EDT

Yeap... - (folkert) - (2) - May 29, 2004, 05:57:25 PM EDT

My case 15k winders boxen nationwide - (boxley) - May 29, 2004, 06:42:36 PM EDT

Re: Yeap... - (pwhysall) - May 30, 2004, 03:49:01 AM EDT

O peanut, I thee sledge -NT - (deSitter) - May 29, 2004, 03:54:48 PM EDT

I never name them after users or jobs. - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - May 29, 2004, 03:04:56 PM EDT

Re: I never name them after users or jobs. - (deSitter) - May 29, 2004, 04:00:11 PM EDT

Heh. - (mmoffitt) - May 29, 2004, 04:03:44 PM EDT

Theme names - (JayMehaffey) - (2) - May 29, 2004, 04:51:32 PM EDT

I've always cautioned to be careful with names. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - May 29, 2004, 05:14:18 PM EDT

Re: I've always cautioned to be careful with names. - (deSitter) - May 30, 2004, 02:18:00 AM EDT

Sure... good reason TO use it. Thanks. - (folkert) - (2) - May 29, 2004, 03:27:01 PM EDT

Re: Sure... good reason TO use it. Thanks. - (deSitter) - (1) - May 29, 2004, 04:02:57 PM EDT

I don't want to get into a pissing war. - (folkert) - May 29, 2004, 06:00:22 PM EDT

Re: MAC address conveys no new information. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - May 29, 2004, 04:08:06 PM EDT

Sure, like FCC ID -NT - (deSitter) - May 29, 2004, 04:44:50 PM EDT

When I named computers - (orion) - May 29, 2004, 04:35:29 PM EDT

Planets, car names, table of elements, movie and book chars - (lister) - (13) - June 7, 2004, 03:45:57 PM EDT

Ineptium? -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 7, 2004, 03:52:02 PM EDT

I only used the real element names, no made up ones -NT - (lister) - June 7, 2004, 04:23:54 PM EDT

Dubnium? Bohrium? -NT - (drewk) - June 7, 2004, 03:54:10 PM EDT

Boron? -NT - (imric) - (9) - June 7, 2004, 04:51:59 PM EDT

DING! -NT - (lister) - June 7, 2004, 05:01:45 PM EDT

That IS "Bohrium", kinda, AFAIK: It's named for Niels Bohr. -NT - (CRConrad) - (7) - June 8, 2004, 05:35:22 AM EDT

.......... - (imric) - (6) - June 8, 2004, 06:38:28 AM EDT

This is why.... - (pwhysall) - June 8, 2004, 07:12:55 AM EDT

Re: .......... - (deSitter) - (2) - June 8, 2004, 07:20:27 AM EDT

Nononono. - (pwhysall) - June 8, 2004, 07:22:37 AM EDT

ROFL! -NT - (imric) - June 8, 2004, 09:48:38 AM EDT

Oh - then WTF is boron named for? - (CRConrad) - (1) - June 8, 2004, 08:24:28 AM EDT

But you must admit bohrium would be more dense. :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - June 8, 2004, 07:50:06 PM EDT

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