From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 8:25:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B533A37B6AE for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 08:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:25:31 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26728; Fri, 26 May 2000 16:25:30 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:25:30 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Andy Dills 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, 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. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Donate a signature: http://tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~cmjg/sig-submit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message