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Wireless Client Hostname instead of Mac Address

DMR188

Hello, we have about 50 AP100C's in our environment.   When I look at the connected client list, its just a list of Mac Addresses.  I'd like it to display the actual hostname of the device connected to a particular SSID or AP.   I have tried adding the in-arpa in DNS/Request Routing, but that doesn't seem to do the trick.  I verified that I put it in properly matching what is shown in the Reverse DNS of our DNS server.  Any ideas how to get the UTM to show the hostname under Wireless Clients instead of Mac?

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    Go to Wireless Protection: Wireless Clients and hit the + sign. You can then manually add a friendly name each mac addresses and you will see the friendly name thereafter in Wireless Protection connected client list.

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  • 0 in reply to htguru
    Hello and thank your for the reply. Yeah, I've seen that option, but I should have noted. This particular appliance has (78) AP100C's hanging off it with roughly 700 wireless clients in that list, that would be next to impossible. And this is one of our smaller deployments. I do have a case open with Support to make sure I have my in-arpa and all that setup correctly to make it show actual hostnames as the Mac addresses are pretty much useless (Unless you don't mind jumping though a bunch of hoops looking them up everytime).

    Thanks
  • 0 in reply to DMR188

    That's a mighty big deployment even if it is one of your smaller ones. By "it would be next to impossible" I assume you mean that you don't actually know who many of these wireless clients belong to. If that is the case then I think you are looking at a feature request to have the DNS hostname show up in the wireless protection connected client list.

    Best Regards - HTG
    Frustrated Sophos Partner seeing all the things
    that brought me to Sophos slowly slip away.
    RIP astaro.org

  • 0 in reply to htguru
    Yeah I ended up opening a support case and they basically said you need to run DHCP off of the UTM to get the hostnames to be there instead of MAC. While I don't really wanna do DHCP off the UTM, what I might try is moving the Wireless VLAN's from the Layer 3 switch to the UTM and just running the wireless scopes off it and see how that runs. I don't really think that should add too much load to the appliance I'd hope.

    Thanks
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    hey dan, what is your finial solution to this topic? do stay with the UTM-DHCP for wifi clients? thanks for an answer
  • 0 in reply to AK13

    I'd be interested in this too. At the moment, the UTM just isn't giving me what I require with regards to ip addressing etc.

    Our guest network is segregated at the router level with ACL's there so there's no crossover of lans etc

    Dhcp leases are done at the local router level for the guest. I might try and move them to the UTM for the guest networks to see how it get's on.....

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