{"id":879,"date":"2009-11-15T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=879"},"modified":"2009-11-15T18:30:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T17:30:34","slug":"r2s-nifty-new-dhcp-mac-address-filtering-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"R2&#8217;s Nifty New DHCP MAC Address Filtering Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw that Windows NT Server 3.5 included something called a &quot;DHCP server&quot; that freed me from having to hand-configure static IP addresses on every one of my IP-connected computers, I was delighted, and I&#8217;ve used Microsoft&#8217;s DHCP in my networks ever since.&#160; Now, between NT 3.5 and now, DHCP hasn&#8217;t really changed all that much&#8230;. unless you&#8217;re talking about the DHCP server service shipped with Windows Server 2008 R2.<\/p>\n<p>The new stuff in R2 isn&#8217;t earth-shattering, but it <i>is<\/i> convenient, and provides a sort of &quot;poor man&#8217;s quarantine&quot; by letting you control which machines your DHCP server should give IP addresses to, and lets you do it in a fairly convenient way.&#160; In this article, I&#8217;ll introduce you to R2&#8217;s DHCP MAC address filtering feature and how to make the most of it.<\/p>\n<p>Link &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.minasi.com\/newsletters\/nws0911.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minasi.com\/newsletters\/nws0911.htm\">http:\/\/www.minasi.com\/newsletters\/nws0911.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw that Windows NT Server 3.5 included something called a &quot;DHCP server&quot; that freed me from having to hand-configure static IP addresses on every one of my IP-connected computers, I was delighted, and I&#8217;ve used Microsoft&#8217;s DHCP in my networks ever since.&#160; Now, between NT 3.5 and now, DHCP hasn&#8217;t really changed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12,114,26],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-2008-r2","tag-dhcp","tag-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}