Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:18:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp client request for a netblk - ideas? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906181704330.34137-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <14182.57600.845707.33747@penny.south.mpcs.com>
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Howard Goldstein wrote:
> This is what they tell me. The kind lady at the other end didn't
> have/wouldn't tell me the IP block.
Defeats the purpose of having a block, in my eye.
> Would this work? I thought the protocol mapped a host address to a
> MAC. If I did that and pulled the {blah} box back off the lease
> (post-suck) would the ethernet link bomb? Sure, could try this too.
Depends on who's providing the address. I don't know of any routers that
try to mix DHCP and ARP. Sounds like a recipie for disaster though.
> We *are* talking about the phone company. Is not the phone company
> arrogant simply because they can be? If I tell them it doesn't
> support DHCP they're going to tell me to buy their cute little $600
> router that'll do this for me. I wonder how it's doing it
I'd be curious to know. The Fujitsu solution is pretty space-inefficient
-- two lines per card for what looks like an 8" tall card. The Copper
Mountain DSLAMs we use fit 24 ports in a 16" card.
> > > If this were a normal routing situation I'd run gated or something to
> > > advertise the /28 route but this funky Fujitstu SDSL modem seems to
> > > have different ideas about routing.
> >
> > Fujitsu, eh? I wasn't aware they made dsl equipment.
>
> Ugly little black box, looks like an audio CD Walkman that joined a
> gym a few months ago. RJ11 and RJ45 jacks for 10bt and DSL data. Its
> power supply failed today not more than a few hours before the
> installer came to add the audio/data splitter. It took some doing but
> after a long phone call at least he was persuaded to leave his
> (presumed functional) modem behind.
Icky. The photo Fujitsu has on their site looks more like a flattened
Cisco 675 than a big beefy box.
> Man I wish bpf was compiled in the GENERIC kernel, I really would have
> liked to have tried dhclient before unplugging the thing to go home.
I tried to convice them, but they wouldn't have any of it. Apparently it
does have legal consequences (although Windows machines ship with this
feature built-in ... hm... )
Doug White
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