Re: users assigning their own IPs

J Rowley (jrowley@bitstorm.net)
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:27:25 -0500 (EST)

I'd like to see a feature in a future ComOS like the Ascend MAXen have
where you can set the IP Pool Only = No or = Yes to prevent this. When it
is set to use only IPs in the pool, users can't volunteer to perform DNS
for our Network, or decide they want to give the web server a break, or
they want to route all of our traffic... :) An Assigned-Address in Radius
should override this setting for the static customers.

Just my Xmas wish list... :)
J

On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Robert Hiltibidal wrote:

> Ahhh... the denial of service part 2....
>
> When I called Livingston they told me there was no hardware/software way
> to prevent this. It has to do with the way the Livingstom os works with
> the nameserving file. What I did was hand the party involved a 300$ bill.
> I had a copy of the log showing multiple usage of the ip and when I
> confronted the person they said they were running a quake server and
> needed a static ip... What they did was cause periodic service denials
> because we all know ip sharing can't exist. I haven't gotten my money yet
> but they haven't been running the quake server either...=)
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Chuck Rouzer wrote:
>
> > Just curious if anyone else has come across this.
> >
> > It appears users can "assign" their own IPs by setting their IP address
> > to an available IP on our network. Is there a sure fire way to prevent
> > this and to only allow the remote machine to work with the given IP?
> >
> > --
> > /* Chuck Rouzer - rouzer@spyder.net - http://www.spyder.net /*
> >
>
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