Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-16 Thread Liontaur
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jerome Herman wrote > > > It is indeed a lot easier. Unfortunatly it cannot be used in this case. > Basically it is an hotel that is already wired in CAT.6. We ant the clients > to be able to connect through wire without resorting to routers or DSL > modem, with ju

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Gary Gatten
sticky/static ARP's, etc. I don't mind, but probably off topic for this list. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ; nat...@vidican.com Sent: Thu Oct 14 12:56:19 2010 Subject: Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for po

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Jerome Herman
Le 14/10/2010 16:33, Nathan Vidican a écrit : On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Jerome Hermanwrote: Le 13/10/2010 22:25, Elliot Finley a écrit : we did this with DSL customers. But instead of using a unique gateway for each Client, just use IP Unnumbered and proxy arp for your loo

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: > Le 13/10/2010 22:25, Elliot Finley a écrit : > > we did this with DSL customers. But instead of using a unique gateway for >> each Client, just use IP Unnumbered and proxy arp for your loopback >> interface. >> >> > I was about to say that

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Jerome Herman
Le 13/10/2010 22:25, Elliot Finley a écrit : we did this with DSL customers. But instead of using a unique gateway for each Client, just use IP Unnumbered and proxy arp for your loopback interface. I was about to say that this solution seemed extremely sensitive to spoofing. But I figured o

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-13 Thread Elliot Finley
we did this with DSL customers. But instead of using a unique gateway for each Client, just use IP Unnumbered and proxy arp for your loopback interface. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Jerome Herman wrote: > Hello, > > Given the price (an tedious management) of layer 3 switches I was thinking >

Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-13 Thread Jerome Herman
Hello, Given the price (an tedious management) of layer 3 switches I was thinking about using modified DHCP to distribute addresses with a /32 netmask (255.255.255.255) The Idea : Create a cheap (and preferably not dirty) way to have client isolation, without creating tons of vlan. Pratict