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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any Info on NIS & Reverse Protocol Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 21:45:54 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 29 Message-ID: <320C1402.362C@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bb84d2$a69064a0$6fc4abc7@glen> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) glen wrote: > > I have checked the handbook and the FAQ's. There is really not any info on > Reverse Protocol. > My goal is to have Freebsd look up the clients on the network by there MAC > address and then give them an ip address. > Any info would be helpfull. > Thank you. You've got me confused. If each node on the net is to have essentially a fixed IP address (whether based on their MAC address or any other criterion), why go through all this??? Just let each node have a fixed address and let it go at that. The only reason for assigning addresses dynamically is when addresses are to be assigned as nodes power up and attach themselves to the net, regardless of who powers up when. In such cases, you can use ARP, RARP, or bootp. You may want to monitor the operation of the network, and thereby match up specific machines to their assigned IP addresses, but what's the point of going to the trouble of using dynamic techniques to assign a fixed address to a specific node? -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |