From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 02:44:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA21729 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21664 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA10641; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:43:53 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:43:52 +0100 (MET) To: Joe McGuckin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. References: <199802242058.MAA24843@monk.via.net> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 25 Feb 1998 11:43:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: Joe McGuckin's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:58:34 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe McGuckin writes: > - You could come up snooping the ethernet > - probe & find an unused IP address > - look for DNS query packets - looking for a 'magic name' (install.freebsd.org) > - if you see that, send a reply out the ethernet with your IP address. > > So, I'd put the boot floppy in the machine, hit reset, go over to my web browser > and type in http://install.freebsd.org. If the machine hadn't booted, I'd > get a web page from FreeBSD stating that. Once the machine had booted, > the next time a hit 'refresh' on the browser, I'd get the first page of the > install dialog. No you wouldn't, because the correct IP for install.freebsd.org would have been cached, so you'd keep getting the "web page from FreeBSD stating that [the machine hadn't booted]". Also, "probe & find an unused IP address" is not something I would want to do (or allow) on any IP network I should have the (dis)pleasure of administrating. A laptop and a null-modem cable - now we're talking... -- "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out." (Michael Press on a.s.r) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message