From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 28 4:20:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bar.pilsnet.sunet.se (bar.pilsnet.sunet.se [192.36.125.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4647B151EA for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:20:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dufberg@sunet.se) Received: from localhost (dufberg@localhost) by bar.pilsnet.sunet.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA05399; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:21:30 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:21:30 +0100 (MET) From: Mats Dufberg To: "Victor M. Carranza G." Cc: FreeBSD Questions mailing list Subject: Re: Preventing stealing of IP address... In-Reply-To: <19990228091250.7326.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What can I do to prevent my FreeBSD server's IP address from being > > "stealed" by a misconfigured network client? I mean... when somebody in > > the same network configures her machine with the same address as the > > FreeBSD server, the server losts access to the network until the client > > releases the address! Install a DHCP-server and let all hosts by default use DHCP to get their IP address. If they need static IP addresses the DHCP server can use the MAC address to use for determining which IP address to give to each host. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mats Dufberg KTHNOC, KTH, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden Telefon/Phone: +46-8+790 83 46 Fax: +46-8-10 25 10 Email: dufberg@sunet.se SUNET:s www-katalog: http://www.sunet.se/sweden/main-sv.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message