Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Devil-linux-discuss Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Thu, April 5, 2007 14:19, ne...@co... wrote:
> Heiko, thank you for your quick reply.
>
>
>> What do you mean exactly with swapping sessions?
>> I'm currently failing to understand where the DL box comes into play
>> (except for the firewalling).
>>
>
> Swapping sessions:
> Each user logs into the telnet-based app.
> When they log in, they get specific menu options based on their logon.
> When one handheld "steals" a session, someone can power up a scanner and
> be logged in as someone else--or be logged in as someone else who might
> have been in the middle of an inventory transaction.  A good example of
> this might be where one person was adding to an outbound shipment at the
> same time someone else was receiving product.  Without warning the
> receiver's scanner was using the shipper's session.  That really messes
> up the transactions and can take a while to solve.
>
>
> The DL box:
> This is how we are controlling the access to the network.  When we put the
> DL box in, the dozen or so clients connecting to the telnet server all
> seem to be coming from the same IP (the DL box).  Before the DL box, each
> of the scanners had their own IP that could be seen by the telnet server.
> This means that it could restore a session if there was a disruption in
> our T1.
>
> Basically I'm looking for suggestions on how to keep the DL box in use
> without (or at least minimizing) the problems with the telnet clients.
> The DL box has prevented a number of people from hopping onto our
> wireless network and I'd like to keep it.

OK so you're currently hiding all the scanners behind a NAT right now.
Would it be possible for you to 'officially' route the IPs from the
scanners, without the NAT?

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org