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In een bericht van 28-2-2016 11:17:
> No because domain names are global in scope while MAC addresses are 
> local. 

Mac addresses are unique (you can fake/clone them but that is another 
topic discussion) - imho they therefore can be used globally as well?
But saying that, it is in my case not a problem to use them locally as 
the issue concerns my local network.

> You can set up DHCP to issue fixed addresses based on MAC. 
I do use DHCP and fixed combined. Using this I am familiar with; my 
issue is identifying hardware in a network that is partitially using DHCP.

Thanks,
Jos Chrispijn