[H-GEN] Networking portables...

[Craig Eldershaw]

>Unfortunately, dhcp doesn't seem like it'd work too well at humbug. For a 
>start we want some security on who gets to connect (or at least, who gets
>to be routed), and we also want to give out static IPs, but we don't want

Yo could cludge it a little if the toy will always be connected to a
private subnet.  If it is, then with a bit of care, you could ensure
that you always use the same IP and gateway (eg. you are always
192.168.1.33, and your gateway is always 192.168.1.1).

>My other thought essentially requires a server at all of the above places 
>that tells sapphire everything it needs to know about the network it just
>connected to. This is ideal, IMO, but it also seems to be non-trivial.

Well this is the sort of thing that NIS (and friends) do - though they
are more intended to keep keep all the clients up-to-date with the
central repository.  Once you have the IP sorted out, I can't see why
you couldn't have one of these set up at each site to give you what you
need.

Cheers,
	Craig.