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From: RockyG on 31 May 2010 05:32
>On May 28, 11:05=A0pm, clemens fischer <ino-
>n...(a)spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:
>> (sorry for being so late)
>>
>> On Thu-2010/03/25-22:54 Didi wrote:
>> > I tried today to figure out a simple way to give users of our new
>> > netmca (http://tgi-sci.com/tgi/nmcatb.htm) to locate its IP address
>> > once it gets one via dhcp when there is no internet at the moment
>> > (when there is the device posts its IP to our domain and customers
can
>> > see it using a browser).
>>
>> You mention a fallback IP constructed from a standard prefix
>> 192.168.100.<mac>, with <mac> being the last octet of the NIC's MAC.
>>
>> How about putting a slip of paper into the box stating this fallback
IP?
>> Works with and without non-site internet.
>>
>> clemens
>
>Well this is sort of the same thing. The lowest byte just has to
>be made up somehow, as others use 192.168.100.xx as well. Some
>luck will be needed anyway to not have that IP reserved. BTW
>the users get this not on a piece of paper but in a file
>on the accompanying CD :-) .
>
>But this IP will not work at all in may cases when there is
>internet on the site. The subnet is likely to be quite different
>to the assumed one for fallback, so hosts trying to reach this
>IP will route to the gateway rather than locally (using ARP).
>It is just an ultimate fallback scenario so one can somehow get
>in touch with the device if it won't get automagiacally accepted
>on the local net via dhcp. Say, when people want to set a static
>address to it and need to access the thing to do it.

Out of curiosity, did you try NBNS and if so what was the factor that
prevented use of it? I noticed you continued trying other solutions..

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