dhcpd MAC filter

[Chuck Swiger]

Wayne M Barnes wrote:
>     Is there a way to allow or disallow certain computers by their
> MAC number?

ipfw 2 supports firewalling by MAC address, so yes.

>     This ability comes with the software on my wireless access point,
> but I prefer that my FreeBSD system hand out the IP addresses,
> and I cannot find this MAC-filtering ability at man dhcpd.
> 
>    isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.1.r14_2 is my installed port.
> Is there another dhpcd to try?

You can specify MAC addresses in your DHCP config to reserve specific IP 
addresses for specific machines.  I'm not sure whether there is a way to tell 
DHCP not to grant a lease to MAC addresses which are not found, but then, 
without using a firewall, someone could manually configure a foreign host to 
use the connection, regardless of whether they can get a DHCP lease.

-- 
-Chuck