On July 28, 2004 23:02, Chris Berry wrote: > I just wrote: > > From reading Martin's original requirements, it looks like it's mostly > > doable, with the exception of times when 2 machines are configured with > > the same IP address. > > A worse problem might be when a box has its gateway machine configured > to be the same address as another box has as its own IP (eg, home > network 1 has 192.168.0.1 as gateway and 192.168.0.254 as a client, and > home network 2 has 192.168.0.254 as a gateway). > > A potential problem there is that a client from network 2 would request > its gateway via ARP, and the client from network 1 would respond with > its own address. >
You're right, I didn't think of this and a few other scenarios as well. I suppose this solution starts falling down the more complex and the more laptops connect to this "special" network. > Chances are pretty slim, I guess. In my case, I'm only looking at a few laptops being connected at the same time, in te order of 1 - 15, so this should reduce the chances even more. Martin _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
