Are hosts no longer designated by mac address?
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I ran a full host registration for an EliteBook 850 G8, which worked fine. When I pxe booted a different EliteBook 850 G8 fresh out of the box, it came up saying it was already registered. It displayed the name of the device that I had just registered previously.
I know for a fact I have never registered this new device, so why is it showing up as registered in FOG? When I was at a different organization a few years ago, our FOG server never did this. From what I remember, it looked at the MAC of the device when registering. Is this no longer the case? Or am I missing something?
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@yeet said in Are hosts no longer designated by mac address?:
When I pxe booted a different EliteBook 850 G8 fresh out of the box, it came up saying it was already registered.
Short answer is check your MAC address of the registered one vs new out of box. If you are sharing a usb network dongle between them then that might be the problem.
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If you are sharing a usb network dongle between them then that might be the problem.
Well, that’s exactly the problem. I hadn’t even thought of that as a possibility. I appreciate the response
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@yeet See if the bios has a setting called mac passthru or something similar. That will passthru the built in mac address of the mobile device to make the network adapter generic and the computer unique.