[svlug] multiple ricochet wireless router?

[Seth David Schoen]

Dagmar d'Surreal writes:

> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> 
> > OK, now any given machine uses 192.168.64.n as its gateway, where n is
> > the machine's own IP address mod 4, plus one.  Then when you give out
> > DHCP leases, if you give out 192.168.64.m, you need the gateway to be
> > 192.168.64.(m%4)+1.  This might be feasible.
> 
> I hate to bash this idea since you clearly put a lot of thought into it,
> but just having everyone use the hostname "proxy" to get out and having
> that hostname resolve with round-robin records on the interneal DNS server
> would probably work about ten times better.

Not all operating systems (or DHCP client implementations) let you
specify a default gateway by hostname instead of by IP address -- as
far as I know.  In manual configuration on Windows and MacOS systems I
recall having to enter an actual IP address.

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