[nsp] Subnet question

[John Payne]

--On Monday, February 17, 2003 09:20:54 PM -0800 charles spamington 
<spamscanner at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The issue is that when we actually do this, we would
> need to change the gateway/netmask address on each
> machine. Since the first group of machines are in 1
> large /21 and would be using the same router address
> that they're using now, after we do the switch they
> would still be online and not have to be updated
> immediately.
>
> How can we buy some 'hold' time with the rest of the
> machines so they don't go offline until the
> gateway/netmask has been updated? Are there any sort
> of tricks we can use? Any way to buy us sometime while
> we update the machines?
>
> The only option I can think of is to write a script to
> be ran on the machines right before we do the switch..
>
> Any help suggestions is appreciated.
>
> Joey

Sounds like the one remaining application of proxy-arp...