Prevent IP Address Assignment via MAC Addr

Hello busthead ,

Thank you for reaching out to the community, you can create a network defination for the MAC Address [Path: Definitions & users > Network Definitions > MAC Address]
 And then you can use the definition to allow/block !

Vivek, don't you think that "blocking" is unnecessarily complicated?  Why not just create a Network Host with static mapping and assign the MAC to a specific address outside the range of the DHCP server?

Cheers - Bob

Vivek, don't you think that "blocking" is unnecessarily complicated?  Why not just create a Network Host with static mapping and assign the MAC to a specific address outside the range of the DHCP server?

Cheers - Bob

BAlfson said:

just create a Network Host with static mapping and assign the MAC to a specific address outside the range of the DHCP server

I created the recommended Network Host definitions but the hosts are still being assigned IP addresses from my DHCP server:

Hi,

I think you need to define/select the DHCP server, that you want to prevent assigning address to this host like in my settings:

jprusch said:

I think you need to define/select the DHCP server, that you want to prevent assigning address to

So you're saying that I have to create a second DHCP server just to NOT assign an IP address to these hosts?

Not a second one, you need to select your DHCP server there. Because you want to prevent this server from servicing for this MAC. Therefore you define a static mapping and then this server knows, ok, there is already a definition, I don't need to bother with this host.

Ah! Gotcha. I'll try that...didn't work unfortunately: