From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 06:08:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA16125 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:08:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (cagw1.att.com [192.128.52.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA16116 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 06:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by cagw1.att.com; Wed Feb 25 08:57 EST 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com (dcn71.dcn.att.com [135.44.192.112]) by caig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id JAA00699 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:03:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:06:08 -0500 Message-ID: To: joe@via.net, robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:06:06 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > > - 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. > > ... i.e., DHCP or IPV6 autoconfiguration ... > Another option is to do like some print servers: you put manually the ARP record to your browser machine, then do telnet to some special port (or not special port, or not telnet but http connection) and the new machine reads its IP address from the first received non-broadcast packet. I guess it's simpler than a small DHCP server. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message