From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 8:27:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.xecu.net (post.xecu.net [216.127.136.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DD137B6AE for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:27:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@xecu.net) Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [216.127.136.216]) by post.xecu.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED434840; Fri, 26 May 2000 11:25:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by shell.xecu.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20578; Fri, 26 May 2000 11:27:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.xecu.net: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 11:27:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Andy Dills To: Jan Grant Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: promiscuous ethernet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 May 2000, Jan Grant wrote: > On Fri, 26 May 2000, Andy Dills wrote: > > > Or, is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do? > > DHCP? - automatic configuration of client machines, but you can specify > their IP addresses, what gateway they should use (I'm guessing this is > what you want it for) and get them to use a nearby DNS server, etc. > > As far as the client machines go, at most you need to turn their network > configuration to use DHCP; a single checkbox on winders machines, and a > lot of sites are using this these days so quite a significant number of > laptops may already be configured to use DHCP. This was the first thing out of my mouth when I was given this project. I was told that this isn't acceptable, as the powers that be feel that the people in question would be overwhelmed merely by being directed to open up the TCP/IP properties. It's the kind of deal where we _really_ have to cater to these people. Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message