"Gino LV. Ledesma" wrote:
> > ehrm.. yes, you can do that. but why bother? use DHCP and all will be
> > well..
>
> The reason for manual IP assignment is so that we can find out the
> "registered' owner of the machine. We have a relatively small network,
> approx. 50 clients only. It's more of a 1-to-1 correspondence, so it keeps
> things simple.
dhcp can do this also. aside from giving a dynamic ip address for those dhcp
client, you can configure dhcp server to give a static ip address based on host's
mac address.
> > as an aside, both Solaris and IRIX have GUI tools that pop up a notify box
> > if the IP the machine is using is being used by another machine (something
> > like "the machine with MAC address xx:yy:zz:aa:bb has a conflicting IP
> > address with this machine").
>
> This also pops up in the other OS as well.
>
> The reason why I wanted to know is that sometimes some people switch IPs to
> for whatever purposes they might have. And at times, both network interfaces
> (usually Windows clients) are shutdown. In the end, the registered owner
> complains because he/she is unable to access the network. Thus, we'd like to
> know who the culprit (IP switcher) is and apply sanctions if need be.
>
to prevent users altering your windows network configration parameters, apply
policy editor.
fooler.
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