Why not use this but modify it slightly

assign the pool of addresses to the interface and remove them as their
are provided to a client, when the lease runs out re alias it to the
interface, not guarantee of knowing when  machine releases its ip
address.

A

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:30:55PM +1000, David Kempe wrote:
> Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> >If you are running a DHCP server on a network and have a block of IP
> >addresses which you make available, how can you stop a (reasonably)
> >knowledgeable luser from explicitly grabbing an address from that block
> >by explicitly configuring their box with that address, thus preventing
> >that IP address from being recorded in the leases, and hence you not
> >immediately knowing that that box has been attached to the network.
> >
> 
> My suggestion would be to run some sort of proxy arp setup.
> If a box on your network is running a proxyarp setup like the one with 
> shorewall - when windows users go to change their ip address, the 
> windows box will arp and check to see if that address is in use. 
> Proxyarp will accept the response and the windows box gets confused and 
> gives the user "this ip is already in use" error. Nicely frustrating.
> Not sure if my explanation is correct, but I have been able to duplicate 
> this behavior with recent versions of shorewall, kernel 2.4.27 and 
> windows 2000 and xp.
> 
> Its not the same as mac level filtering :) and its a serious hack, but 
> might be helpful...
> 
> dave
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