Possible To Assign Hostnames Through DHCP Option 12 Using DHCP Static Mappings?

[alteredstate]

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to use Option 12 under the "Additional BOOTP/DHCP Options" and assign hostnames to my devices but use what I have listed in the "DHCP Static Mappings for this Interface" on each of my pfSense interfaces? If so, would you please go into more detail on how to achieve this.

[Derelict]

Probably not. The clients don't like to set their hostnames based on DHCP. Nothing to do with pfSense.

[alteredstate]

@Derelict said in Possible To Assign Hostnames Through DHCP Option 12 Using DHCP Static Mappings?:

Probably not. The clients don't like to set their hostnames based on DHCP. Nothing to do with pfSense.

Thanks for the reply! Am I misunderstanding the use of DHCP Option 12? According to what I've read if Option 12 is received by a client during the time of acquiring an IP address then the hostname sent by Option 12 is used by the client.

[johnpoz]

Which is completely up to the client to use or not use..

With linux you could add

request host-name

To the dhcp client config, but I am not aware of a way to get windows to ask for option 12 or use if offered.