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In a message dated: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:25:58 CDT
"Jasper O'Malley" said:
>On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Paul L. Lussier wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Just a quick correction, it's OUI (Organizationally Unique Identifier),
>not OID.
Sorry, my mistake. Someone around here was talking about OIDs, and it just
stuck in my head when I wrote the e-mail. My apologies for any confusion.
>> 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.
>
>Any reason the engineers can't turn off DHCP/BOOTP forwarding in their
>local router?
Well, yes. What they're doing is not condoned on this network, so I really
don't care that their equipment is crashing :) They decided to play with
their testbeds on my production/corp. network (a major no-no!). The router
has BOOTP/DHCP relay on because there are a lot of legitimate systems on that
network that need to be booted via DHCP. They decided they wanted to test
their stuff in a "live" network, and obviously did so without asking me about
it (I would have said no anyway). Now they're coming to me telling me
*my* DHCP server is causing problems (couldn't *possibly* be a bug in the
design now, could it? ;)
So, that's why I'm asking for this feature :)
Thanks,
--
Seeya,
Paul
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