From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 20:05:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09934 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sili.adn.edu.ph (info@sili.adn.edu.ph [165.220.57.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA09910 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from info@localhost) by sili.adn.edu.ph (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA04662; Sat, 1 Jan 1994 16:05:44 +1000 Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 16:05:43 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Information Help Desk To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ip address (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 16:05:11 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Information Help Desk To: Hung Michael Nguyen Subject: Re: ip address On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Hung Michael Nguyen wrote: > > > > > > HI !!! > > > > How do you make sure that a machine sticks to its own assigned IP > > address. I have a problem managing IP's here because they keep on > > changing the IPs on workstations. > > Don't give out the root password. Use bootp. Hide/delete ifconfig. > > Mike. > Tried this already. They already know our networks address. Workstations use NCSA telnet that I know supports BOOTP. But they keep on changing the line, myip=BOOTP to myip=165.220.57.x Anymore suggestions? -- jf