Behcet Sarikaya wrote: > If someone avoids DHCP, and therefore > avoids this DHCP "authentication", their ability to access the network > is unrestricted. > [behcet] > Disagree. Without an IP address access to the Internet is restricted.
DHCP is *advisory*. The clients that do DHCP could just as well configure a static IP, and get network access. > [behcet] Authentication failed, no IP address, what more can you do? Sniff the local net. Find an unused IP. Configure it. Configuring static IP's is impossible only if the switch filters traffic. i.e. It blocks all network traffic except for DHCP, until the DHCP IP has been allocated. Once the IP has been allocated, it only permits traffic that uses that source IP. This is not, as yet, a common configuration for a switch. Alan DeKok. _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
