Re: Machine Registration
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:32:03AM -0700, Ted Deppner wrote:
> 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 multiple people who have 10.0.0.1
> as their ip address and anything in the 10.0.0.x as a gateway.
>
Basically, each 10.0.0.1 won't be able to see each other because they're
each on a different port of a vlan eth switch, or did I miss something?
With this setup, dhcp would be very hard to setup. Since they're in
different broadcast domains.
I'm not sure, but do VLANs keep _any_ traffic from passing to other VLANs
without a router, or just broadcast frames?
> 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 auto-discovery on one Ethernet port isn't too tough.
>
> Additionally, registration is done per port... not per ip.
>
I think this is assuming a very high end network setup with Ethernet
switches. What if the network only uses hubs and routers?
> --
> Ted Deppner
> http://www.psyber.com/~ted/
>
Mike
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