> Once upon a time Leonard shaped the electrons to say...
> > I'm looking into the possibility of setting a PM3 up such that
> >when a particular dialup user calls in, no mater where he tries to
> >go with his browser, he'll be automatically be redirected to a
> >specified web server. The purpose is to still let a user with
>
> Can't do it. You'd have to spoof the server IP with a proxy server.
> And unless they are already configured to use a proxy there is no
> transparent way to do it.
You actually COULD do it. What youd need is a PC running linux or
something like IPRoute (a firewall/single ip routing program). Youd have
to route all the traffic thru the pm 3 TO this box. Then youd have to run
a MODIFIED version of the routing daemon, like gated for example, on the
linux box to intercept any packets with an httpd destination port on them,
alter its actual CONTENTS to reflect the ip address of the web server you
want them to see, then ship it out...
Dave Mischler wrote a program called IPRoute which runs on a PC which
could be used as BASE code to write such a beast, although its primary
function is to allow multiple machines on a local net use 1 ip address for
the internet by maintaining an internal translation table (NAT), or the
newer GNAT.
Neither method would require that you run the workstation in proxy mode as
you are physically intercepting the packets.
I think this is actually a good idea and worth looking into to market. Ill
see what I can come up with over the next month or so on the linux side.
This would be called soemthing like NAT rerouting or NAT destination
manipulation?
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