[techtalk] DHCP vs. Static security

[Marie Fischer]

On Fri, 5 May 2000 moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:

>   I am trying to get opinions on using static ip's as opposed to dhcp. I
> work in a relatively small office and was thinking that if everyone had a
> static IP then I could use arp to map the MAC to the IP and have a better
> understanding of who was doing what on the network. Also I could disallow
> any ipaddr not in use via the firewall. Any thoughts?
You should be able to do this with dhcp, too. At least in my dorm's
network it seems to be like that - you get your IP with dhcp, but it's
always the same for the same MAC. The MACs and corresponding IPs are
configured somewhere, so that unregistered users can't use the net. Maybe
that helps.

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marie