How to bind an IP to a MAC address?

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Hello everybody.
Having a nice day?
Well, I can say that I am having one, well, sort of with this Cisco stuff going round my head.
Anyways, I want to assign my wife's laptop with the same IP address every time she connects to our network.
I know I could make it static on her machine but then, when she takes out to friends she would have to change the settings to accept an IP from DHCP.
I have been looking around in Cisco's website and it seems I have to do a dhcp pool. In this pool if I have the network statement I can't use binding.
Any help on this would be as usual greatly appreciated.
Cheers

 

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I'm not a Cisco guy but see here :-

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2/ip/configuration/guide/1cfdhcp.html

Under configuring manual bindings...

 

LOL...
Been there, done that but the lapop was still not getting the IP that I had in the binding pool hence why my post.
Maybe I have done something wrong.
I'll keep trying and I'll post my conf latter today.
Thanks

 

Hello.
This is what I got:

CR1721#sh ip dhcp binding
Bindings from all pools not associated with VRF:
IP address Client-ID/ Lease expiration Type
Hardware address/
User name
192.168.28.236 0100.22fb.70d6.46 Infinite Manual
CR1721#
Jan 11 19:11:12.322: DHCPD: DHCPREQUEST received from client 0100.22fb.70d6.46.
Jan 11 19:11:16.702: DHCPD: DHCPREQUEST received from client 0100.22fb.70d6.46.
Jan 11 19:11:23.814: DHCPD: DHCPREQUEST received from client 0100.22fb.70d6.46.
Jan 11 19:11:39.602: DHCPD: DHCPREQUEST received from client 0100.22fb.70d6.46.
Jan 11 19:11:44.610: DHCPD: DHCPREQUEST received from client 0100.22fb.70d6.46.
Jan 11 19:11:52.362: DHCPD: DHCPREQUEST received from client 0100.22fb.70d6.46.
Jan 11 19:14:22.762: DHCPD: Sending DHCPACK to client 0100.22fb.70d6.46 (192.168.28.234).
Jan 11 19:14:22.762: DHCPD: unicasting BOOTREPLY to client 0022.fb70.d646 (192.168.28.234).
Jan 11 19:14:35.306: DHCPD: checking for expired leases.


The laptop was offered IP 192.168.28.234, not the .236 as peer instructed on the binding.
Amazingly when I do a sh ip dhcp binding, it shows only this;

CR1721#sh ip dhcp binding
Bindings from all pools not associated with VRF:
IP address Client-ID/ Lease expiration Type
Hardware address/
User name
192.168.28.236 0100.22fb.70d6.46 Infinite Manual
CR1721#

If it offered the .234, why isn't it showing here?

My config is as shows:

ip dhcp pool RAPC
host 192.168.28.236 255.255.255.248
hardware-address 0100.22fb.70d6.46 ieee802 (it is the correct hardware mac address)
client-name RAPC(it's the laptops name)

What am I doing wrong guys and girls?

 

Come on you guys? Anybody?

Why isn't my Cisco router giving the reserved IP address which bind to the machine's MAC?
Why is the pc still getting an IP from the other pool and not using the IP from the binding pool?
I'm lost you guys.
I have googled it and straight into ciscos website but still it is not working.
As ussual, any help well appreciated.

 

Whats the Make and Model of the router?

Are you wireless or Wired?

 

It may be just me but your example of a MAC address doesn't follow Cisco or the usual critera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

 

Hello mate.
It's a modular 1721 with an ISDN and a 4 port switch.
The laptop can be booth wireless or physical but I am staying with just the physical for know.
Cheers.

 

You do have a point but, this is what I have on the router;

CR1721#sh ip dhcp bin
Bindings from all pools not associated with VRF:
IP address Client-ID/ Lease expiration Type
Hardware address/
User name
192.168.28.233 0100.22fb.70d6.46 Jan 13 2010 06:36 AM Automatic
192.168.28.236 0100.22fb.70d6.46 Infinite Manual
CR1721#

Now, the .233 is on my laptop as I have just checked it.
The laptops NIC MAC however reads 00-22-FB-70-D6-46.

Instead of typing it to the router I just copied and paste it onto the binding pool.
Maybe this is where all went wrong?

 

I would suggest removing the hardware address line from your config and replacing it with a client identifier, e.g.:

ip dhcp pool RAPC
host 192.168.28.236 255.255.255.248
client-identifier 0100.22fb.70d6.46

BTW, the identifier has the "01" prepended onto the mac address to indicate that it's type is ethernet.

Spice_Weasel

 

... and Spice_Weasel is my saviour.
Where have you been man!!!
It is done, it's working.
Thank GOD.
Well, as I can't be too long without a headache I must be in pursuit of another one once again.

One more question to all of you. For me to mess around with all this network here at home, I haven't got much yet but, the question is would you guys advice me to get a server as well? What can I have for the NOS? Windows 2003 or 2008 server? I know nothing of booth, last time I done Windows server was a NT server being migrated to a 2000 server and that was like 8 years ago at a school.

All your thoughts and opinions are, as you know, more than welcome.

Why was Ciscos website pointing me to do the

ip dhcp pool NAME
host 192.168.28.236 255.255.255.248
hardware-address 0100.22fb.70d6.46 ieee802
client-name NAME
?

Thanks everybody.

 

Glad to be of help!

Hardware-address is used for bootp clients, client-identifier for dhcp clients.

Spice_Weasel