Periodic assignment of unique IP address

Chris Cox chris_cox at stercomm.com
Thu Nov 29 19:59:22 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 17:04 +0000, Siraj Shaikh wrote:
...
> 
> I should have explained this earlier. As part of my research, I am
> exploring various aspects of deploying a 'network security monitoring'
> sensor on a network segment. The reason for acquiring a unique IP
> address (at every renewal) for this, is to attempt to 'hide' the
> sensor so that it does not stay on a particular IP for a longer time
> (as this may allow an intruder to identify the sensor). The need to
> assign an IP arises because we do want to be able to access some
> services on the machine as well.

Something this custom warrants a custom solution.  Don't use
DHCP for this scenario.  Just my opinion.


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