Re: DHCP

[Mark <mark@bish.net>]

Well, supposedly MAC addresses are unique per network interface not just
computer - but there are times when this doesn't happen - Ask Harry.


On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Kara Pritchard wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, KoReE wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I need to ask a couple questions about DHCP.  Never having used it, I'm
> > not quite sure what all it offers/entails.  I'm going to need a system
> > that will dynamically allocate IPs, and, unless I implicitly tell it not
> > to, will authenticate a system before giving it the IP#.  Does the DHCP
> 
> You can set up DHCP to assign per mac address, which is unique per
> machine. Is that enough authentication for you?
> 
> > server/client environment allow for this?  If so, how good is the DHCP
> > service in Linux?  If DHCP does not do this, what else is there that
> > offers this sort of thing?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> DHCP is wonderful :)
> 
> - Kara
> 
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