Override hostname

RouterOS General
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If you have in mind that the Mikrotik would indicate an individual hostname in the DHCPDISCOVER and DHCPREQUEST it sends, as a DHCP client, on each WAN, you have to do the following:

  • under /ip dhcp-client options, create two new items, named “hostname-wan1” and “hostname-wan2”, both with code 12 and with a string value representing the hostname you want to use, e.g.
/ip dhcp-client option
add code=12 name=hostname-wan1 value="s'myHostName'"
add code=12 name=hostname-wan2 value="s'yourHostName'"
  • under /ip dhcp-client, replace the hostname option on each row attached to a WAN interface with the corresponding option added above:
/ip dhcp-client
set [find interface=wan1] dhcp-options=hostname-wan1,clientid
set [find interface=wan2] dhcp-options=hostname-wan2,clientid
2

:blush: Thank you.
BTW what is the letter “s” in “value” for?

3

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/DHCP_Server#Properties_3 - so maybe for this case, it would not be necessary.