Re: [squid-users] Access for a host

At 03:20 PM 7/31/2002 -0500, Kari Suomela wrote:

>Wednesday July 31 2002 16:20, Rost, Werner wrote to 'ftnx@ksbase.com':
>
>
> RW> Why does IP addresses change all the time? Because of using DHCP?
>
>Yes. Bell/Sympatico here assigns addresses according to an apparently
>random scheme, and I don't want to enable complete networks.
>
> RW> this case you should create reservations for these PCs connection
> RW> the
> RW> MAC with a IP.
>
>Would you mind explaining how I would do this?
>
> KS

This is off topic for a squid mailing list, but we use the ISC DHCP daemon
(http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/) to assign IP addresses within our network.

You can tell it to use IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx when seeing MAC address
yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy

This way you can keep the end machines setup as dhcp clients, but you
control their IP addresses. Then you can set special policies on them if
need be.

Obviously you need to be in charge of the DHCP server in order to do this.
Received on Wed Jul 31 2002 - 13:58:42 MDT