[MLB-WIRELESS] another stupid q, about dhcp

[rick]

so then it is possible to stop people "hacking" into networks

right?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Langdon, VK3JED" <vk3jed at optushome.com.au>
To: "rick" <mibz at optushome.com.au>; <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] another stupid q, about dhcp


> At 07:31 PM 3/04/2002 +1000, rick wrote:
>
> >ok with dhcp you can assign ip addresses to mac addresses right?
> >
> >ie f45a4aa62 = 10.10.12.1
> >
> >what if you have 5 comps on teh network and then to stop peopel comeing
on
> >could you do
> >
> >aaaaaaaa = 10.10.12.7-255
> >
> >can you force that if you dont have X mac address you cant get X ip?>
>
> With Linux you can - don't configure any dynamic ranges, and tie each IP
> down with a host declaration.  In NT/win2k, you could try reserving all
> your IP addresses to specific MAC addresses, so there's none free for
> anyone else.  You can define the scope bigger than you need, fill in the
> reservations, then exclude the rest of the range.
>
> 73 de Tony, VK3JED
> http://vk3jed.vk.irlp.net
>


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