DHCP and MAC addresses

Duane Hill d.hill at yournetplus.com
Mon Oct 27 08:39:43 PDT 2008


On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, en0f wrote:

> Bob McConnell wrote:
>> On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington
>>> One response I got off list was that I could use "deny
>>> unknown-clients;" if I use isc-dhcpd-server, which got me thinking ...
>>> is there another dhcp server for FreeBSD in the ports tree, or outside
>>> it?
>>
>> I have used dnsmasq on Slackware Linux. It is a combined DNS/DHCP server
>> that works well on small private networks. I don't know if it runs on
>> BSD.
>
> Same here. I've used it on Debian&Ubuntu without any problem on home network and as Bob mentioned it talks both DNS and DHCP.

Just took a quick look:

   %locate dnsmasq
   /usr/ports/dns/dnsmasq
   ...

Seems to be in the ports tree.


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