Re: Releasing IP Address
From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran)
Date: 06/28/02
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From: jcochran at naplesgov dot com (Jeff Cochran) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:17:17 GMT
>Ah, to be in the corporate world. But unfortunately this
>is county politics. Each agency has its own elected
>official and IS dept. The Commission as the distributor
>of money mandated one central network. Elected officials
>protested and the compromise was four independent networks
>each connected to my hub, but individually managed. I
>have all IP addresses posted on our support site so each
>department can check such things, but arrogance runs
>high.
I'd assume you were in my county except every county I run into seems
to have this same issue.
> I do not know how an IBM printer can take priority
>over a firewall at the server, but when they assigned it
>the same IP, it dominated. I can direct connect to my
>firewall and change the IP, but that doesn't resolve my
>root problem of controlling the assignment of IP addresses
>by other agencies. Ideally what I need is a way to ban a
>MAC address from accessing with any IP address.
The permanent solution is to renumber your network since they won't
renumber theirs. The alternatives are to disconnect their network
from yours, or run an application that just happens to "go crazy" and
repeatedly overloads that particular IP with traffic. :)
Jeff
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