command to ignore certain macs?

Bill Campbell bill at celestial.com
Thu Oct 2 23:52:24 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 02, 2008, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> Is there a way to specify a list of MACs which should NOT
> be assigned an IP?
>
> I have a few rogue computers accessing my network, and acquiring
> an IP from my pool. Rather than create a whitelist, I would prefer
> to create some sort of blacklist 'DO NOT TALK TO THESE MACS'.
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks.
>
> The only other way I can think of blocking them, is to create some
> other private network range, become authoritative for it, and assign these
> rogues an IP from the new range (which will go nowhere because it wouldn't
> actually exist).

You might add ``host'' sections for them giving them address 127.0.0.1.

Bill
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