RE: ip addresses
>Have you ever had a problem with people spoofing MAC addresses
>to get IP's?
We haven't run into that yet.
>Seems like if they're going to the trouble to give you the MAC address you
might as
>well give them fixed ip's.
This is a good point, as it is a direct connection the customer is always
online with us. We have to have one IP for each customer, at least. I am
not sure why
the decision was made to go this route (I wasn't with the company at the
time,
and the guy who made the decision is the one I replaced.) I think they
were
having problems keeping track of who had what ip address. From what I hear
my
predecessor fealt DHCP was safer for our customers, he thought if we used
DHCP that it would be more difficult to crack one of our customers
computers.
>Have you ever had anybody try to scram your network?
Not yet...knock on wood.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Wagner [mailto:wagnerc@plebeian.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 11:22 PM
To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: ip addresses
Interesting. Have you ever had a problem with people spoofing MAC addresses
to get IP's? How does your system react if more than one host presents a
request for an IP if that MAC has already been assigned an IP? Seems like
if they're going to the trouble to give you the MAC address you might as
well give them fixed ip's. Do you have more customers than IP's? Have you
ever had anybody try to scram your network? :)
At 11:17 AM 8/8/00 -0500, Jamie Bumsted wrote:
>then have a linux box running DHCPD right before the customer hits the
>router. They must give us their mac address and we place that in the
>DHCPD.CONF file and allow only known hosts.
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