Re: Reply to ALL IP addresses?

From: Dave (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:35:56 -0000

it sounds to me like you are trying to write your own router that does nat
and has some filtering rules. why not use a real router?

"Hannes" <hannes.google@sternerson.com> wrote in message
news:73c98b98.0408310710.69b5d9c1@posting.google.com...
> I take it from your two answers that the answer to my question is "NO,
> Windows can't do that".
>
> To specify some detail WHY I need this behaviour, is that we already
> have an so-called intermediate driver (based on PASSTHRU) installed,
> that is screening all packets to our MAC address. As our box
> represents a whole bunch of IP addresses on the external network, the
> filter driver is forwarding those of interest for Windows and other
> user space applications.
>
> The user space is not aware of what external IP addresses the box
> currently is using, so we were hoping to NAT the traffic and pass up
> packets sent to internal IP addresses.
>
> For packets going back out again, we were hoping to map these internal
> addresses in a one-to-one mapping to external IP addresses, in order
> to know what external source address to put on the packets.
>
> It would be useful if Windows could reply to a whole range of internal
> IP addresses (e.g. 10.10.10.1 - 10.10.10.254) so that we could
> dynamically alter the number of external IP addresses currently in use
> by the box.
>
>
> Sending it all to one internal address won't work, as we don't know
> what external address that corresponds to when transmitting packets.
>
>
> / Hannes.
>
> / Hannes.
>
> "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:<BePYc.343211$%_6.17274@attbi_s01>...
> > If you really want to do it a broadcast replies to all computers on your
network as
> > in 192.168.1.255, though that would need to be controlled via the
application. ---
> > Steve
> >
> > "Hannes" <hannes.google@sternerson.com> wrote in message
> > news:73c98b98.0408301044.15b937a9@posting.google.com...
> > > Is it possible to configure a Windows 2000 (Server) machine to reply
> > > to ALL IP addresses, or all addresses in a specific range?
> > >
> > > I know this sounds silly, but it would make perfect sense in our
> > > application.
> > >
> > >
> > > / Hannes.

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