/32 subnet

wlanmac wlan at mac.com
Wed Feb 4 10:57:37 UTC 2009


I will add it.. thanks for making it all option-ized already - though,
it needed an entry in cmdline.ggo, which is used to generate
cmdline.[ch]. 

David

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:03 +0100, Thomas Liske wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the basic idea behind the attached patch is the following:
> 
> On a hotspot, normaly you don't want to allow client to client 
> communication (everybody should have access to the internet and be somehow 
> protected from other hotspot users) - especially for the windows dhows.
> 
> This patch adds a new configuration option "noc2c" (no client 2 client 
> communcation). With this option enabled, the DHCP offers supplies a /32 
> netmask. Doing this would prevent any hotspot client to communcate with 
> anybody, even the default gateway. Therefore it adds a static route for 
> the default gw as an connected route. This prevents (windows) clients 
> doing any broadcasts on the hotspot network and reach any other hotspot 
> client (default gateway must not route any pakets coming from a hotspot 
> client to any other hotspot client). It would be great if somebody could 
> test it with additional clients, Win XP works as expected.
> 
> Any comments on the patch are welcome ;)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
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