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There's a chance that it might be possible with ISC dhcpd when 'option dhcp-client-identifier' is used to explicitly set client ids, but it needs to be checked (it also doesn't apply to most setups, as not all eherhnet switches support forwarding of custom client ids). I don't think this is possible with MS dhcp at all (but also needs to be verified).

Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:

There's a chance that it might be possible with ISC dhcpd when 'option dhcp-client-identifier' is used to explicitly set client ids, but it needs to be checked (it also doesn't apply to most setups, as not all eherhnet switches support forwarding of custom client ids). I don't think this is possible with MS dhcp at all (but also needs to be verified).

Dimitri, what do you want to gain from the client id? I believe (and tests indicate that as well and cobbler does it in a similar way) that it's enough to deploy to reservations and make the checking for duplicates/conflicts more intelligent. I'd have foreman send a white list of mac addresses and filter the duplicates by them. Should work, I guess.