Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:37:29 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: support@junglenote.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SV: dhcpd Message-ID: <199908131537.AA025898649@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:26:04 %2B0200." <01BEE5B0.ECA08460.support@junglenote.com>
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Yes, I understood why you thought you wanted to do this, but I don't think you understand why you don't want to do this. Consider one of your more typical non-problem users. He's got a dynamic address and is busily working away when suddenly you change his IP address out from under him. Any network connections he has open at that point are going to crash. After this happens a few times he is eventually going to figure out that you're doing it to him on purpose. And then he is going to be in a not-very-happy mood when you hear from him... -Mitch >One of the reasons for altering their ip is to make life harder for the >client trying to establish a ip-based server. For those that want a static >ip can of course add this as an *option* to their contract. I've investigated >this issue for quite a long time and there're really no other real options. >However I'd be grateful, if you had something in particular in mind. > >/D > >I'm not sure why you would want to do this. I can only imagine one >possibility: an attempt to prevent your users from setting up servers >on dhcp clients. > >I don't think you've fully thought this through. What do you expect to >happen to open sessions when the IP address suddenly changes underneath >them? Your users will want your head if you do this to them. You >really need to think of a different solution. > >-Mitch > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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