[CUWiN-Dev] Re: much simpler upgrades

[tom]

I may have found a less painful solution. There's clearly some communication 
going on between my laptop and the node. So I put a packet sniffer/analyzer 
(Ethereal) on my laptop and managed to get the IP address of my router at 
home without actually being on the network (I enabled WEP to ensure that I 
wasn't actually getting a DHCP lease or anything).

Of course, in a crowded area this method will pick up tons of information, 
but the output can be filtered so it only shows IP addresses that are likely 
to be nodes.

Thoughts on this method?

Tom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Young" <dyoung at pobox.com>
To: "tom" <tom at anotherwastedday.com>
Cc: "Bryan Cribbs" <bdcribbs at ojctech.com>; <cu-wireless-dev at cuwireless.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [CUWiN-Dev] Re: much simpler upgrades


On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:27:47AM -0600, tom wrote:
> In a similar vein, would just booting into some other *nix distro solve 
> the
> IP location problem? It seems like way overkill, but Knoppix or what have
> you could be used to do a broadcast ping, run sshd, etc. I don't know how
> hard it would be to get wireless cards working (I don't know what kind of
> built in support there is in a stripped-down distribution).

That should work.  Also, we can make you a CUWiN CD-ROM that boots
on the VGA console.  We install the bootloader using 'installboot
console=com0kbd', which should boot on VGA if the serial port is
not attached to anything.  Perhaps we should make you a CD-ROM with
'console=pc', instead.

Dave

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