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On December 13, 2000 09:39 am, you wrote:
> Does anyone know how to assign the ip address of a linux box from a remote
> workstation using arp?? I've seen webcams do this so i know its possible.
> One suggestion i've seen is to assign the box a 'fake' random address like
> 10.255.1.48 or whatever and use tcpdump to watch for MAC addresses.. If the
> box sees its own MAC address, it sets its IP address to whatever is being
> queried. The remote workstation would use something like
> arp -s [real ip address] [MAC address of linux box]
> and then to initiate the query..
> ping [real ip address]
There are a couple of utilities:
http://www.fefe.de/divine/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/intuitively/
Intuitively looks cooler, but I haven't tried either. They autoconfigure
themselves, but you could possibly hack one of them to set up based on the
ping you do.
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James Oakley
Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.solutioninc.com
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