The key is the gateway. DHCP gives the user the gateway to use and 
such. I don't know if there are any which emulate Mac OS X's Location 
feature for windows, because that may be helpful. I have a setup for my 
static IP at home, DHCP for school, and another static IP for work, as 
well as the "Automatic" DHCP setting for other places.

Andrew.


On 13/10/2005, at 10:32 PM, James W. McKeand wrote:

> Don Munyak wrote:
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Bryan Catlin <bryancatlin at connectgroup dot net>
>> Date: Oct 13, 2005 1:55 AM
>> Subject: [m0n0wall] Just Mac to get traffic out the door?
>> To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to allow users out the wan without having them have to
>> dhcp first?  I guess where I am going with this is say a user has a
>> pc that has a fixed IP for there office or home and they do not
>> change it is there a way to still allow them to gain access to the
>> wan port IE the internet without having them change their IP settings
>> to dhcp?
>>
>> I have seen this on another box and for public locations would be a
>> very useful thing for mmm... more non technical users to get to the
>> net.  On the other box they use the mac only not Ips to pass the
>> traffic.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>>
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>> You could setup a DHCP rnage on m0n0wall from 100-200, then put a
>> static IP on the the mobile user of say 50.
>>
>> DHCP does more than issue an IP.
>> 1. It tells the PC the gateway of last resort.
>> 2. It tells the PC what DNS to use.
>> 3. It can also tell the PC about WINS servers
>> 4. ...etc, many more possibilities
>>
>> If you give the pc a fixed IP for work, you will also need to give it
>> a fixed gateway, subnet mask and DNS, which may not work at home or on
>> the road.
>>
>> - Don
>
> I think Brian is going for the scenario that the guest user does not
> have to change anything on his/her laptop for the access to function. I
> have seen posts on this on the list.  Basically, the m0n0wall has to be
> able to respond to ANY IP, that is difficult to say the least. I 
> believe
> that end result was that it would not work. But, check the list archive
> anyway.
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