Re: user based IP address assginment

["Omar Fahnbulleh" <otariq () bellatlantic net>]

You can solve this with a Policy server on your network.  The protocols used
are COPS and EAP.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Julien" <daniel.julien () thc state tx us>
To: <firewall-wizards () nfr com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] user based IP address assginment


> At 08:31 AM 10/31/00 -0600, Jeffery.Gieser () minnesotamutual com wrote:
> > #is there any Tool or any way to assgin an IP address depending on the
> > UserID?
> >
> >      I am pretty sure there is no way to do this in Windows.  The issue
> > here is how DHCP/BOOTP/RARP work.  In all instances at bootup time a
> > machine sends out it's MAC address and receives an IP address.  The issue
> > here is that you log in after your machine has an IP address.  Since you
> > need to reboot every time you change your IP address in Windows 95/98/NT,
> > you really cannot assign an IP address based on username.
>
> Not true. The NT command-line utility "ipconfig" will release or renew a
> DHCP lease, as will the Win95 GUI utility "winipcfg". So you could run
> ipconfig as part of a login script to get an IP address. Given this, the
> problem is How does the DHCP server know what address it should give out?
> As you say, all the server knows is the MAC address. This is the problem I
> don't see a solution for.
>
> --Dan
>
>
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