On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Ed Vance wrote to Ben Ritchey:

 EV> I'm a little puzzled about Your last line:
 EV> "(matches IP to MAC address)" .

 EV> I know the computers I have each have a MAC address, but iirc the
 EV> MAC address doesn't look anything like a IP Address.

 EV> I just looked at ipconfig /all on this pc and iirc the Physical
 EV> Address shown is the MAC address, right????????

yes... and if you have to change the NIC, there'll be a new MAC... the MAC
is assigned to the NIC, not the machine... laptops with both cable and wifi
capabilities have at least two MACs...

DHCP address reservations (aka psuedo-static) are made based on the MAC...

)\/(ark