Re: drop dhcp request from a particular mac address, after a dhcp relay

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On 12/03/10 02:27, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
--- On Wed, 3/10/10, Robert Nichols<rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to adjust the DHCP server's
configuration by
adding a "deny" statement in the pool's permit list?

True but manually editing the configuration file will require the dhcp server to be restarted, whereas 'iptables' and/or 'ebtables' can be scripted at runtime.

I'm curious. Is that actually a problem? In other words, what breaks when you restart the dhcp server?

jch
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