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
