Bootp. Mike
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Bulebush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3.41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DHCP Server solutions Hi all, I'm looking for product suggestions of DHCP servers that require authentication from the client before handing out an ip address. It must also be able to use MAC address registration, and I would like to see if there is a way to only allow clients that have been assigned IPs from the DHCP server to be able to leave the local network segment. IE, make it so someone plugging a rogue laptop into the network and assigning a static IP to their machine, would not have access off the local network segment, or out to the internet, even if through network switch configs even.... I am not sure if this is even possible though, because when I utilized a Bell-Atlantic DSL a few years back, they required me to install a client to be able to get an IP from their DHCP server so I could get to the internet (I was unable to circumvent this), but when I switched to a local DSL provider, over the same physical DSL connection, the local provider assigned to me a local ("NAT'd") static IP, and with that I was able to shoot straight to the internet with the proper network settings, thus successfully circumventing the previous provider by not needing to log into a DHCP server. (Only thing I could guess was perhaps I was using a different class B or C network and a different gateway over the same network segment?) So my question is, does anyone have any DHCP server suggestions? Also, any network hints to handle the second part?
