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Ted, Paul, et al.--
this actually seems like a useful feature... this might be something with
somewhat wider applicability than masking on NIC addresses....
--Barr
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> From: Paul L. Lussier[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 6:31 AM
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> Subject: How to exclude on partial MAC?
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> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to globally exclude serving systems based on the OID
> portion of
> the MAC address? What I want to avoid is having to list all the MACs of
> the
> systems I *don't* want to serve.
>
> The problem here is that engineers are constantly testing our product out
> on
> the network. These systems are requesting DHCP services, but are supposed
> to
> get served by a local DHCP server which is correctly configured to serve
> them.
> For some reason, the ISC server is faster to respond despite being 2
> router
> hops away than the Win95 garbage the engineers are using. Since these
> systems
> are expecting to also be served a boot image, they are continually
> crashing
> when the don't receive it from my server. (i.e. it's my fault their having
>
> problems, because my server works too well ;)
>
> Since I know the OID portion of these system's MAC addresses, I'd like to
> be
> able to write an exclude rule for them so my server just ignores the
> requests
> from these devices. Is this possible? How would I do it?
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
>
>
> --
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> Seeya,
> Paul
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