I'm not sure I follow what you are saying. It sounds like you are suggesting basically that I make reservations for the bad clients in the same scope as the good clients? If that is the case, how do I assign a different gateway to those clients?
Curt > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:35 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: DHCP "blocking" MAC address > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Jim Dandy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow, isn't there an easier way? I have to assign a class to all 400 of > > my machines just so I can keep one bad guy out? > > I *think* you can do it by creating an exclusion for the "bad > clients" range, and then creating the reservation for each "bad > client". IIRC, reservations override exclusions. I know ISC DHCP > works that way, more-or-less (terminology's different, but concept > works). > > If not, dial your scope down in size so that the top end has just > enough headroom for your bad clients. Create the reservations there, > and there won't be any room left for the dynamic pool to grab > addresses above that point. This would mean you'd have to adjust your > scope size every time you increase/decrease the number of bad clients, > but dem's the breaks. You could create reservations for bogus MAC > addresses to help alleviate that. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
