> > >It uses DHCP to get an IP, then some protocol for authentication. I >think there's some difficulty if they use a USB ethernet card (you need >to get a supported ethernet card). > Hmm, ok who's they? I assume you mean the people I'm doing the job for. I get to specify the box so it will have a PCI card (or cards as it's a gateway for the rest of the network so I'll need two).
>You need the bpalogin package to do the authentication. I think that's >available somewhere under www.whirlpool.net.au. > Thanks I'll have a squiz at that. >It will, but you will have difficulties when the cable goes down - the >packets coming back will not be able to find you, since that interface >no longer exists... > Sure, can't be helped but at least any new tcp/ip sessions will get a response, so the user will click a link and nothing will happen so they'll do what all good users do which is try again and 'volia' the site is there (though seems a bit slooowww) but hey that happens all the time, welcome to the internet. Cheers Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
