[LARTC] Hello New MAC / DHCP Request - How to spot the presents of a new MAC address...

[Sheldon Hearn]

On Friday 07 July 2006 15:21, Don Gould wrote:
> ie - new user connects to the lan, DHCP server on my Linux (debian)
> gateway gives them an IP, my script is run automatically to change
> the firewall rules and start recording their presents, or if it's an
> unknown user it will add their MAC to a list of unknown users.

I'm sure you could engineer something really impressive, but you could 
probably get away with a lot less effort by simply tailing whatever 
dhcpd logs to (possibly /var/log/messages).

Ciao,
Sheldon.
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