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

Posted by Cliff on from the now-that-is-truly-plug-and-play dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Pray tell . . . by tps12 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    :)

    Sir, I strongly approve of your noseless smiley. Keep up the good work.

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  2. Re:Pray tell . . . by tps12 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You are overreacting dude. Instead of

    s/[:;][()]//g

    you should be thinking

    s/([:;])-([()])/$1$2/g .

    Trust me, no nose is necessary, or even recommended. ;(

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