[NTLUG:Discuss] Where's the best place to find answers about Linux?

George Lass George.Lass at osc.com
Wed Sep 26 13:40:09 CDT 2001


Bob,

As it turns out, there is a "mac" or "--mac-source" parameter that can
be
specified.  But as the long form indicates, it can only be used to
specify
the source, not the destination.

George

Bob Byron wrote:
> 
> I have enough users behind my firewall, that occasionally, they assign there
> own IP address, and conflict with someone else.  They aren't supposed to
> do that, but they do anyway.  I can track them down, but it is too time
> consuming a process.  I basically want to do assignment based on the dhcp
> login, log all MAC addresses so that I can identify ALL machines on the
> network, and prevent anyone from picking their own address.  If there is
> another machine on the network, I want to know about it.
> 
> Bob



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