Re: DHCP

[Shreyas Zare <shreyas () technitium com>]

Hi,

Anyone can set manual IP on his machine even when you got DHCP
configured on network. So, trying to do access control using DHCP is
useless. DHCP is just to make configuring IP on clients automatic.

Regards,

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Doug McFarland <djm () yantarni com gt> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I am looking for a way to block any PC that plugs into my network that is
> not authorized to access any network resources-servers, firewalls, etc. Is
> there a way in DHCP that I can add reservations just for the PCs that I want
> to allow the network resources and any other pc/laptop that happens to be
> plugged into the network either doesn't get an IP address, gets a dummy IP
> address, or something else? I've heard Windows Server 2008 can do this, but
> I'm not sure about 2003. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> djm


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