From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 16 16:38:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camel.ethereal.net (camel.ethereal.net [209.228.7.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7790C156CD for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:38:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mistwolf@camel.ethereal.net) Received: (from mistwolf@localhost) by camel.ethereal.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA26532; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:15:14 -0700 From: Jamie Norwood To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: support@junglenote.com, "[FreeBSD-Questions-List] (E-post)" Subject: Re: dhcpd Message-ID: <19990816151513.C23619@ethereal.net> References: <01BEE57E.591E98D0.support@junglenote.com> <199908131356.AA024672593@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i In-Reply-To: <199908131356.AA024672593@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>; from Mitch Collinsworth on Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:56:33AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:56:33AM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > >I'm looking for a dhcp solution where the server denies address-lease > renewal > >and forces the > >client to request a lease for another. In other words the main idea is that > th > >e client address > >changes with every renewal period. Is it possible and if so how? > > I'm not sure why you would want to do this. I can only imagine one > possibility: an attempt to prevent your users from setting up servers > on dhcp clients. > > I don't think you've fully thought this through. What do you expect to > happen to open sessions when the IP address suddenly changes underneath > them? Your users will want your head if you do this to them. You > really need to think of a different solution. > > -Mitch That is a very broad and sweeping thing to say. I think you are likely right about servers, but also, it is a good tool for keeping people from trying to keep 24/7 connections open; the behaviour you list as something that should make that comletely useless is, in fact, the behaviour looked for. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message