Lule George William wrote the following on 06/17/2005 11:23 AM:
> Thanks Ernest,
> Correct me if my interpretation of the conf below is wrong, but I think it
> declares hosts 1, 2 ...(to whichever number I may feel like) along with their
> MAC addresses after which it allows them to pick RANDOM ip addresses from a
> pool.
> This will not work in my case because it is hosts with known MAC addresses
> that have their ip addresses fixed and any other to pick a random ip address
> from a pool.
> My problem now is that I want to be ban some MAC addresses from picking an IP
> address completely!
the conf below does that, literally. whatever MAC address is not
defined in this configuration file will never get assigned an IP address.
rgds
ernest
>
> On Friday 17 June 2005 11:59, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
>
>>Lule George William wrote the following on 06/17/2005 10:30 AM:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>
>>>2. Don't assign an IP address to that MAC address. I haven't
>>>figured a way of doing this. Someone help out there.
>>
>>Assume u use linux, here's what your dhcp.conf file will contain:
>>
>> # First deny unknown clients
>> deny unknown clients
>>
>> #declare all MAC addresses you want to lease to:
>> host pc1 { hardware ethernet 00:07:72:3j:c6:a2;}
>> host pc2 { hardware ethernet 00:02:60:65:ee:d4;}
>>
>> pool {
>> range 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.6;
>> default-lease-time 6788;
>> max-lease-time 78887;
>> deny unknown clients;
>> }
>>
>>rgds.
>>ernest
>
>
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