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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:07:33 +0300
From:      "Yonatan Bokovza" <Yonatan@xpert.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Binding MAC to IP Statically
Message-ID:  <C2DC75EEA405354AA9C03EF5CB8CDE089AAB3E@exchange.xpert.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswiger@mac.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 23:10
> To: Colin Watson
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically
>=20
>=20
> Colin Watson wrote:
> [ ...rewrapped to 80-columns... ]
> > Any way to bind a MAC address statically to an IP?. I wish=20
> to do this to
> > prevent a user from changing his IP address on the subnet,=20
> so if he does he
> > can't pass traffic. I have experimented with ipfw, but I=20
> can't quite see how
> > I could accomplish the binding of a IP statically to a=20
> nic's MAC. Any ideas
> > be appericated.
>=20
> IPFW2 lets you perform firewall actions on a MAC address,=20
> rather than an IP.
>=20
> You can configure a DHCP server to staticly allocate an IP=20
> address to that=20
> machine via something like this in {/usr/local}/etc/dhcpd.conf:
>=20
> host pi.codefab.com {
>          hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
>          fixed-address 66.234.138.67;
> }

Look for static arp. The basic idea is that you tell your
interface to not use arp (see ifconfig(8) -arp) and give
it a static binding of MAC addresses to IP addresses
(see arp(8) -f).



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