Assignment of local IP

In XP when changing between admin and user accounts with the "switch user" option, I am assigned a different local IP depending on what user or admin account I am logged into. How does the hardware recognize the difference between user A and user B to do this? Is this done at the AP router or within windows itself?

 

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hi,, it should be windows:
. .u can try t manulally configure the ip settings of your windows: contatc your isp and get the dsn ip address, and subnet mas ( commonly used: 255.255.255.0) and you need to have the ip address also of your modem:

 

Not sure I understand you. I think the OP was saying he was
getting different IPs using the SAME SSID, but different
internal usernames on an XP system. When he logs on with one
username he gets one IP and with another users name another
IP. This would indicate that the AP/Router can identify
incoming signals identity on paramaters other than MAC
address, based on internal names within the operating system
of the client computer.

 

See the post from Peter Pan. Also in reading about VLANs on wikipedia,
that you mentioned earlier, it appears the host can identify
specifically what system is connecting and issue or deny DHCP or router
access based on many different paramaters, not just MAC/hostname/client
adapter name, thus yielding whatever local IP is desired or none at all
(denial).

But I am not sure how this works. Also if the OS is reported as you
indicate above, that is just another indication of what system is
connecting. I believe they can also triangulate your antennas location
fairly precisely via sensors at various locations.

Jeff often remarks that he throttles or blocks clients he does not like
but have not seem him mention how he does that.

 

Meanwhile, at the alt.internet.wireless Job Justification Hearings, Fruity
chose the tried and tested strategy of:

802.1x