Binding MAC to IP Statically

Timur thor at telecom.sarkor.uz
Mon Sep 8 02:46:40 PDT 2003


On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:07:33PM +0300, Yonatan Bokovza wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:cswiger at mac.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 23:10
> > To: Colin Watson
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically
> > 
> > 
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > [ ...rewrapped to 80-columns... ]
> > > Any way to bind a MAC address statically to an IP?. I wish 
> > to do this to
> > > prevent a user from changing his IP address on the subnet, 
> > so if he does he
> > > can't pass traffic. I have experimented with ipfw, but I 
> > can't quite see how
> > > I could accomplish the binding of a IP statically to a 
> > nic's MAC. Any ideas
> > > be appericated.
> > 
> > IPFW2 lets you perform firewall actions on a MAC address, 
> > rather than an IP.
> > 
> > You can configure a DHCP server to staticly allocate an IP 
> > address to that 
> > machine via something like this in {/usr/local}/etc/dhcpd.conf:
> > 
> > host pi.codefab.com {
> >          hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
> >          fixed-address 66.234.138.67;
> > }
> 
> Look for static arp. The basic idea is that you tell your
> interface to not use arp (see ifconfig(8) -arp) and give
> it a static binding of MAC addresses to IP addresses
> (see arp(8) -f).

This solves the problem, but creates another one - your clients must
statically bound MAC address of your router (default gateway) to IP
address.



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