[LARTC] How to become your IP range...

Roy-Magne Mo rmo at sunnmore.net
Sat Aug 5 17:05:41 CEST 2006


Don Gould wrote:
> I have laptops visiting my network.
> 
> If they're configured for DHCP then I have no problem.
> 
> However if they're got static IPs set then I want my server to set it
> self up automatically to provide internet access.
> 
> Eg.
> 
> Laptop Ip: 192.168.6.234 - just because the owners admin decided to.
> Laptop default GW:  192.168.6.37 - also very random, but allowable...
> 
> My servers lan side is eth1, on detecting a packets running around with
> the ip range above, it will then assign a new ip range to it self so
> that the laptop will function.
> 
> Has anyone heard of an OSS system that will do this?

You are possibly looking for the proxy ARP feature, look into that.

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Roy-Magne Mo



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