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At 06:11 PM 6/23/2004, Fred Wright wrote: >On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Melvin Backus wrote: > > At 05:36 PM 6/23/2004, Adam Nellemann wrote: > > >Stefan Thuering wrote: > > > > > >>Is there a way to limit the DHCP server to work with static (known) mac > > >>address clients only? > > >>If I enter 4 static macs and limit the server to 4 addr. total it should > > >>generally be ok, but if those clients aren't always running the free > > >>slots can be snatched away. :( > > >>A checkbox with "allow static clients only" would be cool ! > > >>p.s. m0n0wall is fantastic... > > >>thanks > > >> Stefan > > > > > >I too would be interessted in this capability. I think one of the old > (pre > > >1.0) betas were actually capable of doing static-only DHCP (not too sure > > >though), simply by giving a dynamic IP range of x.x.x.0 to x.x.x.0, > > >however, when I recently tested this, my host just got the x.x.x.0 IP > > >address :( > >That's the trouble with having to specify it as a closed interval rather >than a half-open interval. :-) > >What happens if you make .1 the minimum and .0 the maximum? > > > > > > >This just to add my wote for the abovementioned checkbox. (or > something to > > >similar effect?) > > > > > >Adam. > > > > Sounds like what you really want is an infinite length lease. > >No, because an infinite lease still doesn't let you *pick* the specific IP >to be used. Not to mention the fact that DHCP address asisgnments don't >survive reboots on m0n0wall. > > Fred Wright So we're back to reservations? That's what I always do and it's easy enough, although it's one thing to do it for a handful of machines but quite another to do for an entire /24 subnet. I'm not sure I understand to part about picking specific IPs. I thought they just wanted to have X machines which are always allowed to get leases, but anything else which happened to be connected would get rejected. If that's the case, matching the number of machines to IPs works great as long as they always stay up, but his fear was that when one of them is offline something else could snag the IP. A very valid point. My question is I suppose, what happens if you do a 10 year lease, acquire an IP, turn off the machine, try to add a different machine to the network. I'm guessing that the new machine won't get an address. I see your point about leases not surviving reboots. Does that apply only to the CD version or the generic-pc and soekris versions too? ---------------------------------------- Good, Fast, Cheap... Pick any two ---------------------------------------- |