On Feb 2, 23:45, Doc wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>
> > How about using DHCP to ground them? As in:
> > - all machines legitimately using the network are known as well as
> > their ethernet addresses,
> > - assign all those legitimate machines an (basically fixed) IP via
> > DHCP,
> > - for all unregistered machines, offer them IP addresses in the
> > 127.0.0.0 range as well as themself as their default router and
other
> > stuff to make their network connection a notwork connection
>
> I kind of like that! No! I *REALLY* like it! Have you tested this?
Yes, it works. But it's not sufficient, in the sense that it only stops
those who use DHCP.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sun Feb 03 2002 - 06:11:41 GMT