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Hi!

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Naman Muley <naman.g.muley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hence, over here, we have students in the campus as nodes. They may have
> machines with different operating systems. Some of them might have windows.
> AHCPd, either in client or server mode is not available for windows, hence
> these nodes won't be able to get configured.

You can always port it to Windows. :-)

Or use less dynamic allocation scheme. So that each user/maintainer of
the node registers first at some central web interface and then
configures the node accordingly. We are using such scheme in our
network. For that we are using our own software called nodewatcher:

https://nodes.wlan-si.net/

> Can you please explain how could I do this? I will have to have a central IP
> registry with all the nodes and there will have to by synchronization done
> between them?

Synchronization? No. Just for each node you register it so that IP is
not reused.

> MAC addresses are unique. i doubt there will be IP conflicts?

MAC addresses are in theory unique, sadly it is not always so. But
this is not what I had in mind here anyway. The problem is that you
are not using whole MAC addresses but just part of it. And parts of
MAC addresses are not unique. In IPv6 such autoconfiguration works
because you can use the whole MAC address, but in IPV4 it does not. Or
it does, if you are lucky, but then sometimes it does not. And you
will have unpredictability in stability of your network.


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