I'm in the process of researching a similar solution. I've found netreg a
GNU licensed application.
http://www.southwestern.edu/ITS/netreg/
Haven't had to much time to play with it yet
Regards
Chad
At 03:41 PM 2/20/2002, Michael Bulebush wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking for product suggestions of DHCP servers that require
>authentication from the client before handing out an ip address. It must
>also be able to use MAC address registration, and I would like to see if
>there is a way to only allow clients that have been assigned IPs from the
>DHCP server to be able to leave the local network segment. IE, make it so
>someone plugging a rogue laptop into the network and assigning a static IP
>to their machine, would not have access off the local network segment, or
>out to the internet, even if through network switch configs even....
>
>I am not sure if this is even possible though, because when I utilized a
>Bell-Atlantic DSL a few years back, they required me to install a client
>to be able to get an IP from their DHCP server so I could get to the
>internet (I was unable to circumvent this), but when I switched to a local
>DSL provider, over the same physical DSL connection, the local provider
>assigned to me a local ("NAT'd") static IP, and with that I was able to
>shoot straight to the internet with the proper network settings, thus
>successfully circumventing the previous provider by not needing to log
>into a DHCP server. (Only thing I could guess was perhaps I was using a
>different class B or C network and a different gateway over the same
>network segment?)
>
>So my question is, does anyone have any DHCP server suggestions? Also,
>any network hints to handle the second part?
Thanks,
Raoul
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