On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, David Pick wrote:
> But there's another "trick" they pull on the wired side: they expect the
> controller to have an IP address on each VLAN to which clients can be
> assigned, and they "fiddle" with ARP responses so that the clients are
> told that the MAC address associated with the default gateway is the
> controller rather than the real default gateway, and then they re-write
> packets to get them to the actual default gateway for the subnet. This
> doesn't live nicely on our network, and may not on yours; watch out for
> it.
Can you elaborate on what aspect of your network it is that means this
trick doesn't work so well for you?
Thanks,
Jethro.
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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