> -----Original Message----- > From: Timur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:34 > To: Yonatan Bokovza > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically > > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:07:33PM +0300, Yonatan Bokovza wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 23:10 > > > To: Colin Watson > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically > > > > > > > > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > [ ...rewrapped to 80-columns... ] > > > > Any way to bind a MAC address statically to an IP?. I wish > > > to do this to > > > > prevent a user from changing his IP address on the subnet, > > > so if he does he > > > > can't pass traffic. I have experimented with ipfw, but I > > > can't quite see how > > > > I could accomplish the binding of a IP statically to a > > > nic's MAC. Any ideas > > > > be appericated. > > > > > > IPFW2 lets you perform firewall actions on a MAC address, > > > rather than an IP. > > > > > > You can configure a DHCP server to staticly allocate an IP > > > address to that > > > machine via something like this in {/usr/local}/etc/dhcpd.conf: > > > > > > host pi.codefab.com { > > > hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00; > > > fixed-address 66.234.138.67; > > > } > > > > Look for static arp. The basic idea is that you tell your > > interface to not use arp (see ifconfig(8) -arp) and give > > it a static binding of MAC addresses to IP addresses > > (see arp(8) -f). > > This solves the problem, but creates another one - your clients must > statically bound MAC address of your router (default gateway) to IP > address.
Correct. It is best for small, unchanging networks. DMZ for example. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"