On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:48:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now I can't believe that this is so proprietary, but I've not seen > anything like this, even for $$$. Does anyone have an idea how they > do this, or, even better, have something like this working already?
Another huge component is automatic MAC and GatewayIP address discovery. The good systems allow you to use ANY settings on your laptop, DO NOT require you to use DHCP, and can allow multilple people who have 10.0.0.1 as their ip address and anything in the 10.0.0.x as a gateway. You can do a lot of nice stuff with DHCP, but the heart of the functionality that makes this "just plain work" is the fiddling they can do to make any ip, subnet mask, and gateway ip work seamlessly. I've not looked into this heavily, but this component should be doable. The problem is how to do this for "every port on the switch". Doing this ARP autodiscovery on one ethernet port isn't too tough. Additionally, registration is done per port... not per ip. -- Ted Deppner http://www.psyber.com/~ted/
