From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 13:18:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B7D37B402 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:18:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1ELIkh05539; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:18:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:18:46 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jaime Kikpole Cc: Brian Minder , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limiting access to DHCP leases Message-ID: <20020214211846.GB89291@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020214195420.GA16470@waste.minder.net> <20020214161212.F65517-100000@zeus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020214161212.F65517-100000@zeus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 14), Jaime Kikpole said: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Brian Minder wrote: > > I've had success providing this kind of access control with a few flavors > > of switches, most recently with Extreme Networks gear. With ExtremeWare, > > you can assign MAC addresses to specific VLAN's, and choose whether to > > assign unknown devices to the default VLAN or to ignore them altogether. > > Correct me if I've wrong, but wouldn't that require entering all > of the MAC addresses through a telnet connection? For that matter, > wouldn't it require doing that for many MAC addresses over many switches? You should be able to add MAC addresses to a vlan filter with SNMP, also. If not, code up an expect script to telnet to the switch and add the MAC. If your switches have clustering capabilities, they may propogate the filter to all the switches participating in the VLAN. Depends on the switch. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message