other than setting up a address translator that you configure for each
laptop as needed to make the internet think the laptop is a machine on
your network.
David Lang
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, David A. Baldwin wrote:
> I have a puzzle that I am trying to figure out. I have a conference room
> in my company which I would like to allow guests to access the internet
> from to show me demo's and such. I would like to allow them to plug in
> their labtop into my ethernet hub in order to allow this access.
>
> Most of my customers have labtops with ethernet cards that they have
> preconfigured for their own environment. I would like to allow them to
> plug into my ethernet without any reconfiguration on their labtops
> (running WinNT or Win95). After they are plugged in, I would expect that
> they be able to access the internet.
>
> I do know that if they are using DHCP, there would be no issue I could set
> up a server that would dole out an IPaddress for them to use. However, I
> can not depend on the fact that they are using DHCP. I also know that I
> could use NAT or some sort of proxy that proxy info to and from them to
> the internet, so if they were using illegal IPaddresses there would be no
> issues.
>
> However, I may have a client with a labtop set up to use IPaddress
> 128.8.10.5 and another client with a labtop set up to use IPaddress
> 10.1.1.130 and I want to be able to plug them into the same ethernet HUB
> and have that HUB plugged into my internet router, and have them both use
> the internet seemlessly.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for something like this. My guess is that
> this would take some sort of Dynamic Routing, and dynamic proxying to
> accomplish this.
>
> Anyway, if there are any suggestions, I would love to hear them.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> David Baldwin
>
> Web Designer, Inc.
> voice: (301)896-9421
> email: daveyb @
web-designer .
com
>
>
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