[techtalk] DHCP vs. Static security

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey Marie,
  Your right about that, I guess that I'm kinda thinking of the senario
where everyone shuts down their computer at the end of the day, thus
losing their IP, and so every day each MAC addr recievies a new IP. That
seems like alot of info to keep building up. What do you think?
Regards,

Harry Hoffman
Product Systems Specialist
Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
206.634.3082 x. 270

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Marie Fischer wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> marie
> 
>