Re: Hardcoding Issues
- From: Rikishi 42 <skunkworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 00:00:58 +0100
On 2007-11-05, Nori <noridotjabi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everyone. I am a college student, and at the college I go to,
we receive our internet connection thought the Local Area Network.
Our LAN uses DHCP to assign IP addresses. The DHCP server only
assigns IP addresses to peoples who have their MAC address registered
with the system admin and entered into this database. Of the late,
several people have been hard coding their IP addresses. This has
become a problem since people who are receiving IP addresses from the
DHCP server are frequently loosing internet connectivity due to IP
address conflict.
The admin needs to change his approach, me thinks.
We've started to put machines on separate VLAN's according to wether they
have a 'valid' MAC address or not. The valid MAC's are put on the main LAN,
and get an IP for it. Those that aren't, are switched on a VLAN that leads
only to the Net, and they get an 192.168.x.x. This allows visitors to go get
their mail, without being inside the company's network. Also easier for
them, because that 'outside' VLAN has no proxy.
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