[CUWiN-Dev] tech question...

[Zachary C. Miller]

Currently you need to use a DHCP server to assign an IP address and
default gateway to your node and then the node will advertise a
default route. There is no currently supported method for configuring
that information by other means. 

The reason for this is that if you are running a CD-boot node there
may be no way to store configuration information and you don't want to
have to reconfigure on every reboot. 

It's pretty easy to set up a DHCP server on some random other device
connected to the same ethernet LAN. Most routers will do DHCP or you
can run a DHCP server on a windows or linux or MacOS box.

It is currently important to have only 1 internet connected node on
your WUWiN network. Our software will support multiple internet
connections in about 2 months.

> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:33:33 -0800
> From: Bob Ney <bney at quiknet.com>
> To: cu-wireless at lists.cuwireless.net
> Subject: [CUWiN] Internet connected node.
> 
> The documentation says that defining the nodes wired interface as dhcp
> client turns the node into
> an internet connected node. Is this the only way to do that? If I place a
> node on an internet connection
> with a static IP, there is no dhcp server but the node may very well be an
> internet connected node.
> 
> Bob Ney,
> Central Valley Broadband.
> 
> 
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