Limit DHCP requests with iptables - problem: Router

Peter Rathlev peter at rathlev.dk
Wed Feb 9 13:09:49 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 10:26 +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
> OP already knows the offending MAC address(es) and did not say he
> needed to autodetect them.

He actually did several times, e.g.:

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 08:32 +0100, Jürgen Dietl wrote:
> I have about 30 K Clients. In case of a client error where the Client
> start spamming the server with DHCP requests I dont know which Client
> it is. It can be any client in the network. So I dont know the client
> ´s MAC address. 

The thread has since moved on to discussing different ways of detecting
the misbehaving clients. And iptables alone simply cannot do what you
describe.

-- 
Peter





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