How to ignore a set of Mac addresses in dhcpd.conf?

Posted by Roberto Aloi on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Roberto Aloi
Published on 2009-12-07T11:53:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 8:43 UTC
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Is it possible in dhcpd.conf to ignore requests from a set of MAC addresses?

Something like this:

host vminstances {
    hardware ethernet d0:0d:*;
    ignore booting;
}

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