DHCP and MAC addresses

[Wojciech Puchar]

> Hello List,
>
> Suppose I have 100 Desktops, and I want my DHCP server to _only_
> assign IP addresses to these hosts, using MAC addresses, is there a
> way to tell the DHCP server to NOT assign any IP address to a machine
> whose MAC address it doesn't know?

of course.

and you can assign IP to each MAC

first

deny unknown-clients;
(dont specify range at all)

then

  host something {
   hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:44:55;
   fixed-address 1.2.3.4;
   option host-name "something.somewhere";
   option routers router_IP;
  }