[Battlemesh] Flashing tool without a VLAN switch

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

On Jun 14, 2010, at 5:07 AM, Benjamin Henrion wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Would it be possible to make a flashing tool similar to ap51, but
> which does not need a VLAN capable switch.
> 
> I am thinking at the following:
> 
> 1. Capture ARP packets with libpcap or similar
> 2. Change the ARP cache, and then reconfigure redboot with
> telnet/netcat commands to change its IP address different from
> 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.21
> 3. Reflash with the right rootfs/kernel images
> 
> Is it possible? What do you think?

Yes it is... you telnet in, change the mac addr and then you can have multiple 
FONs on the same switch.
Works.

However, I still personally prefer to have a PC with 4 network cards for doing a mass flashing.

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