DHCP MAC Filtering

[NFI]

Hiya,

I'm pretty sure (somebody correct me if they know better) that Server 2003 can't filter by MAC addresses, which machines it hands out DHCP information to, but is there some third party tool that will let me do this that anybody knows of?

What I'd like to do is set a rule where DHCP info is only offered to MAC addresses starting, for example, 001676...

I know I can set up reservations based on MAC addresses, but setting individual reservations for all the machines on my network would be far too time intensive (and I might as well set static IP addresses and not use DHCP at all!)

Any ideas/thoughts will be much appreciated,

Thanks,

Paul

 

[basst]

You may be able to achieve what you want be setting up a user class on the DHCP server.

check the link for more info:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;240247

 

[NFI]

Hiya,

thanks for that - it looks like the sort of thing I need to do, but I can't see how you define the scope itself as being related to the user class ID, only the various DHCP settings related to it (DNS Server, Router etc)...

thanks for your help,

Paul

 

[basst]

I have used this method to set a different default gateway for specific users.
However as you say it doesn't appear that you can configure the scope to only apply to machines that are in the user defined class.

Well let us know if you find an answer.

 

[elmurado]

I did hear that they were going to write some of this into Vista. Otherwise you're looking at RADIUS type auth ie Adonis from Bluecat. There isn't really a simple method that I know of.