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I’m setting up DHCP reservations on my home network and came up with a simple schema to identify devices: .100 is for desktops, .200 for mobiles, .010 for my devices, .020 for my wife’s, and so on. Does anyone else use schemas like this? I’ve also got .local DNS names for each device, but having a consistent schema feels nice to be able to quickly identify devices by their IPs.

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[-] MangoPenguin 10 points 2 years ago

I don't see the need, everything gets IDed by its hostname.

The only thing with static DHCP is IoT stuff that needs a consistent IP for HA to connect to it, and servers.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 4 points 2 years ago

It can be useful to assign a static IP address for your kids' devices so you can set parental control on pihole/adguard.

[-] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Pi-hole can seperate devices by MAC, so it's not really needed to group them.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't that require you to use pihole as DHCP though? Afaik DNS packets doesn't contain Mac address, right?

[-] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it will just identify the device by MAC and use whatever IP that MAC has assigned to block queries. I just noticed the other day that i can select devices by MAC and assign to groups, and my pihole isn't the DHCP.

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