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Old 11-09-2012, 04:33 AM   #1
gau1991
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Getting client MAC address from PXE boot server


Hello,
I did successful working on PXE boot for CentOS 6.3, but where I will get MAC address of client that are booting from PXE?
 
Old 11-10-2012, 12:57 PM   #2
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Check your DHCP logs -- they will contain the MAC address and assigned IPs. You can then correlate these with files downloaded from the TFTP server. I don't know of any more automated way to do it than that.
 
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