Configuring a (User-Side) Hassle-Free Network?

braek asks: "I have been approached by a few locations (Hotels/Convention centers) in regards to providing high speed Internet to clients. Now, I'm sure this has been done a million and one times with a small x86 box running some flavor of Unix or BSD, however the thing that makes this somewhat of a more difficult chore, is the fact that the hotels and convention centers want absolutely NO reconfiguration to be required on the users laptops. So for example, the router must be able to route packets for people who have DHCP, as well as someone who has a static reserved IP address of 192.168.4.8 and someone who has a static global of 206.10.3.9. Basically the router should be able to route packets for the user regardless of their IP configuration. I Have looked around the web ad-nauseum but have found very little help. I'm thinking some form of transparent bridge or proxy-arp solution may be the key. Has anyone ever been in a situation like this, or have any ideas as to how this could be accomplished?"

Comments

Re:ARP-Proxy is way to go

[squeegee-me]

Try this here there was a space.

Call people who have already done it

[PD]

The Mariott Hotel in Dallas (can't remember which one exactly) already does this. Your configuration matters not a bit. Just plug it in and go.

Give them a call and find out what they are running, and who provided the solution.