Am Montag, den 19.09.2011, 18:11 -0700 schrieb Craig White: > I'm sitting here and laughing at the stupidity of this suggestion. Well, erm. Sure. > Considering that one of the primary elements of security is IP > Addresses, you are leaving the determination of this security to the > whim of some moron who plugs in a wireless router or worse yet, someone > with intent to assume control over your network and made it as simple as > setting up a DHCP server - something you can easily do on a Windows > workstation. In case you need it, i can provide you with a script that scans for dhcp servers which mac adresses are not known and deactivates the switch port on which the mac adress of this device is found. .... Should i continue? Please don't tell me this is idiotic, i know what can happen and what to do if this happens. You can setup on an Windows Workstation an DHCP Server? What Version would that be? ;) > If you actually have enough servers that it becomes a chore to maintain > their network configuration because you are incapable of any reasonable > long term planning of private IP LAN space where there is hardly any > limitations, you should be using puppet or chef or cfengine or something > that is capable of doing configuration management for a wide range of > networked systems. > Sure, Company gets bought, you have to migrate your network into a wider range of other networks, cause of VPN Routings. You never have been into such a situation? Now please tell me how to plan this? > Craig Stefan -- Stefan Held VI has only 2 Modes: obi unixkiste org The first one is for beeping all the time, FreeNode: foo_bar the second destroys the text. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- perl -e'map{print pack c,($|++?1:13)+ord,select$,,$,,$,,$|}split//,ESEL.$/' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines