Deny DHCP IP to a certain MAC?
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon May 23 11:54:44 UTC 2005
Jeff Kinz wrote:
>
>
>
> Also - Be aware that many Ethernet cards can be configured with ANY MAC
> address someone want to put in them. If you are trying to do this as a
> security measure or access control thing, you may be more vulnerable
> than you think. OTOH - for easing an admin's life it works great.
>
I have seen some Sun lunchboxes that don't have real mac addresses. I
found out coz the battery went flat, the NVRAM lots its marbles and the
box wouldn't boot. A workaround is to go into the slushware and enter a
MAC address.
I recall using something like 00820c00ffee.
--
Cheers
John
-- spambait
1aaaaaaa at computerdatasafe.com.au Z1aaaaaaa at computerdatasafe.com.au
Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/
More information about the users
mailing list