kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: >Hello! > > > >>Without this patch windows respond with an error message >> >> > >... which is right. At least, it is exactly how proliferation >of bogus addresses, is prevented in our lan. > >Host with a random address not known to router cannot exist on the lan. > > OK, but there are some scenarios where this feature is interesting: users with notebooks 'IP-preconfigured' in hotels, airports, etc. There are commercial solutions that offers this solution, see ezXcees servers at http://www.antlabs.com.sg - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
