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I'm living in a dorm that has a large network and lots of people connecting their routers to get wifi (they are technically not allowed to do that but no one will check the rooms for connected routers). These routers also assign a wrong IP to my machine which does not provide me with internet access. We're not allowed to use static IPs in the network. Only assigned IPs from the main gateway.
Is there any way for me under Windows 7 to only accept IP's from a defined MAC / not accept any IP from defined MACs / or to simply not accept any IP of the form 192.168.x.x ?
Is there a reason why you want to protect yourself from DHCP? – schroeder – 2015-05-06T21:12:10.387
Are you trying to defend yourself from a malicious attack or are you trying to prevent issues from configuration mistakes made by other users on the network? – None – 2015-05-07T03:35:12.243
I think you mean: you want do something that other people in that network could not ping you, or see you, or maybe if they send any packet to you, your Windows,drop it, because of preventing malicious activities, yes? – None – 2015-05-07T03:45:04.123
no I want to keep DHCP turned on but I need to select the router I will connect to – tonydo – 2015-05-07T17:41:23.707
DHCP is a layer 2 protocol so if u are in same network why u should need another DHCP server (your one) if u have another providing, i think u have some issues in your network like multi NAT in same network and too many routers when they should be configured like switchs(no WAN no NAT,no DHCP). – Francisco Tapia – 2015-05-07T17:54:52.820
thats right. the routers I'm talking about are misconfigured. Unfortunately I don't have physical access to them, so I'm looking for a way to block them – tonydo – 2015-05-07T17:56:53.787