I did but it does not provide a way to disable certain MAC addresses... On 5/19/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Phil wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running DHCP (also with DDNS) on Fedora Core 2. > > > > I am getting some instances of blank hostnames getting an IP > > address... I want to prevent those people from renewing their IP. > > > > So I actually have a 2 questions; > > > > 1- Can I prevent blank host names from getting a DHCP address? (I know > > I can deny unknown hosts, but that would require me to enter in all my > > known hosts manually, somethign I do not want to do, since there is > > over 250 of them) > > 2- Since I know their MAC addresses is there a way to deny them a IP from DHCP? > > Sure. See the man page for dhcpd.conf, specifically the class and > subclass sections and the "hardware ethernet" options. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you'll hear - > - Satanic messages, but if you play it forwards, it will install - > - Windows...which means Satan is in your system. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
