Re: Down with DHCP!!!!

Well as much as that does make sense, i don'e see the security in creasing as 
uch as the administrative overhead increasing from having to deploy more 
hardware, and besides, all one would have to is figure out you ip scheme in 
order to create a valid address, or copy someone else's address for use on 
their own machine.
One way to stop unauthorized use on a network would be switch port secutirty. 
This involves the use of registering the machines mac address with a given port 
on a switch, commonly available in Cisco switches. This ensures that on that 
port, that NIC and only that NIC are allowed to communicate. 
The rest of ports can be shut down, and it's easily manageable. You can still 
keep your dhcp. Dhcp can be very usefull in carrying information to and end 
users pc about the network and it's servers, it would be a shame to take it 
away.
Hope this helped.

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