[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/17/2005 01:13:48 PM:
> 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
I guess he means it's a little cumbersome to do it your way. Imagine a network of 500 machines or one where people with new computers join and leave by the hour.
CN
>
>
>
>
> >
> > 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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