From: Ryan Walker (walkerrssimicro.com)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 13:25:02 CST

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Awhile back (2+ years), I remember investigating a DSL solution that was
geared for hotels - I believe it was a company called "Elastic
Networks", and one of the features they had was the same as what you've
got listed here. It did DHCP by default, but also had the ability to
detect (and compensate for) fixed IP, DNS & GW settings.

I have no idea how this was accomplished, but I do believe that this
functionality is out there.

In fact, I know that to be the case. The last time I was in Ottawa, I
stayed in a hotel that had the elastic product installed. I plugged my
machine in (which has a fixed IP/GW/etc.) and it 'just worked.' The
hotel was "The Arc"on Slater Street. Great hotel, by the way, if you
are ever in the neighborhood.

Ryan

William Ahern wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:03:31PM -0200, Rafael Coninck Teigao wrote:
>
>
>>Sam Hart wrote:
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>>
>>
>>>> How is it possible?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>it uses multicast to broadcast services on the network.
>>>
>>>
>> But, please correct me if I'm wrong here, for a system to make use
>>of zeroconf, it must have been previously configured to use DHCP and,
>>when it fails, it switches to zeroconf.
>> What I heard was that it was possible to provide network
>>configuration to a system, EVEN if it already has a static IP address
>>configured. Can Zerconf deal with static IP configurations?
>> Supose I have a notebook configured with static IP, DNS and gateway
>>for my office, no DHCP. When I connect it to, say, a hotel network, it
>>just works, no extra configurations or DHCP required.
>> How can this be?
>>
>>
>>
>
>Well, you might be able to come close to that using IPv6 and mobile
>addresses. However, I think you may have been misinformed or misinterpreted
>something. If it sounds too good to be true....
>
>- Bill

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