Feature request - Clientless authentification via MAC

Question

It would be nice when the clientless authentification also work with MAC adresses instead of IP adresses only. 
 In my firewall rules i'm working with MAC hosts. This is working fine for exculsions in HTTPs scanning rules, mail-client rules etc. 
 But the in the Logs there are only appearing the hostnames bind to an IP-adress. Sometimes the IP changes when the lease for the DHCP server expired, so the logs are not always correct. Here is manual work needed. 
 
 So for logging purposes it would be nice, when you can alternatively bind a hostname to a MAC adress for clientless authintification. This would ease the workflow... [H]

Rob Andrews · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 I understand the request and we'll create an item to put this in our feature request backlog. In the meantime, DHCP leases with reservations may be a suitable work around for you. It will solve for the persistence problem and you'll have an authoritative way to ensure that a specific mac always received a specific address.