Re: misconfigured mailout lists.debian.org
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:42:35AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| also sprach dman <dman@dman.ddts.net> [2002.03.27.2017 +0100]:
| > with. With special cabling, no less! (a custom y-cable to connect
| > one NIC to the LAN and one to the outside using the single jack in the
| > wall)
|
| sounds like an incredibly secure solution.
:-)
| as in "physical access to the LAN from the outside, two IP ranges
| sharing a segment..."
No, there's 2 separate ethernet segments. An ethernet segment uses 4
wires in the 8-wire cable. We stuck 2 ethernet segments (4 wires
each) through an 8-wire jack in the wall, which happens to have a
single bundle of 8 wires ("cable") going from it to the patch panel.
| can i have your IP?
| > | or i'll give you a subdomain of pantsfullofunix.net if you wish.
| >
| > That'd be nice, though I've got "dman.ddts.net" right now.
|
| whateveryouwant.pantsfullofunix.net
|
| > Technically the machine at home (with the IP given in the last
| > message) doesn't have a static IP. It uses DHCP to obtain its IP. In
| > practice, however, the IP has never changed (except for when I changed
| > the NIC, and that was only once). I'm not even sure the ISP has thing
| > set up quite right because I don't think the machine is renewing its
| > DHCP lease! If you want to try and help me guess what's wrong with
| > the system, mail me off list for the whole story :-).
|
| we actually had that conversation, i believe...
perhaps.
| nevertheless, you can very well consider your IP to be static in
| that case.
basically
| the ISP doesn't care, it's the way DHCP works, and noone
| complains... what's the (real) point of force-disconnecting a
| permanent connection to change the IP (pppoe, frickin' german
| telekom!). moreover, dhcpd-2.2.x doesn't really even provide this
| feature.
I think the "proper" way to implement the network would be to only
route addresses that actually have a lease. This means that dhcpd
would need to notify something else (firewall rules) when an address
is handed out and when it expires. I'm not complaining, though,
because I'd be in trouble if they did that :-).
-D
--
The light of the righteous shines brightly,
but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
Proverbs 13:9
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