On 6/10/05, herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a wireless network with DHCP on my linuxbox, I have configured my > DHCP using workstations MAC address to specify IP Add with exact IP range as > the number of my workstations. Problem is, there are some laptops from the > next office who can obtain IPs from my workstation that were currently off. > How can I prevent those unrecognized macs from getting IPs from my DHCP > server. Note that i've no extra IP Pool on it, and it was statically > assigned to the specified Macs on my network.
Is the DHCP server enabled on your AP along with your main DHCP server? You may want to disable that functionality in the AP. > Another thing is, I want to setup a firewall using IPTABLES and default is > all packets were block and only allow specified macs to access my network > and internet. Thouch I can block those unrecognized macs. You can do that with Linux's netfilter framework using iptables, although MAC addresses can be cloned too. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
