Re: VitalSigns NetMedic

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:34:51 -0600 (MDT)

How does the "set reported_ip" command work anyway?

Does it just tell the user it is assigning them a certain ip address? Or
does it do some sort of proxying so that they can use it as a gateway even
if it is another portmaster?

On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Stephen Zedalis wrote:

> One way around this without upgrading ComOS, is to "set reported
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and give the same reported IP in all your term servers
> (a dummy address not used elsewhere in your network), then have all your
> Win95 machines set their gateway address to this bogus reported value.
> Only the dialup machines will see this number. This is kind of a
> kludge. I still recommend upgrading instead.