About a month ago I started using DHCP + reservations for my hosts' management NICs. This had been working fairly well until this week when I added 3 new hosts and had repeated alerts complaining of duplicate IP addresses. Reviewing the DHCP scope, I noticed that the MAC address does not jive with the true NIC MAC e.g. DHCP shows 005056xxxxxx and the NIC is e4115bxxxxxx. This is not the case for all of the hosts but more than 50% of them. My question is WTF?
But seriously. Am I missing something here or should I ditch the idea of DHCP altogether? If so, that would eliminate the possibility of using AutoDeploy in the future.
