[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk Box as a Router, Firewall and DHCP Server

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Dave Cotton wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:27 -0400, steve szmidt wrote:
> 
>>On Thursday 02 June 2005 10:17, Dave Cotton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What's wrong with :-
>>>
>>>   host W2K {
>>>        hardware ethernet       00:30:1B:AC:39:E3;
>>>        fixed-address           192.168.1.130;
>>>        }
>>>
>>>this box always gets the same IP and I know who's got what.
>>
>>Nothing, that's really how they all should be done, to avoid anyone leaving a 
>>hostile device on your network. (Since I have not used a dhcp server since 
>>the -90's I did not remember/realize you can assign IP by MAC.)
> 
> 
> Have another look at it because this only scratches the surface.  I love
> DHCP.

	I second this completely.  ISC DHCP allows you to do some crazy 
things...  Start doing diskless clients with PXE/Etherboot and you can 
start to realize how truely flexible and powerful it is!

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Kristian Kielhofner