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 happens:

"The following input errors were detected:

The range is invalid (first element higher than second element)."

... But otherwise a nice idea :)

Adam.