Certificate-based DHCP authentication

From: Stryder Honeymonkey (no email)
Date: 11/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:35:42 -0500

Hi All,

I'm trying to prevent users in my office from bringing PCs and laptops
from home, plugging them into the office network, and ending up on the
same IP subnet as our other office PCs.

I'm thinking maybe I can use machine certificates to somehow
authenticate valid PCs to the DHCP server before an IP address is
handed out?

Is my thinking right on this, or is there a better way to accomplish
what I want?

Your help is appreciated!
'monkey

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