From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 18:42:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from damoe.wireless-isp.net (damoe.wireless-isp.net [208.61.227.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED1137B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (keen@localhost) by damoe.wireless-isp.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9P1h5535626 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:43:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:43:05 -0400 (EDT) From: David Raistrick To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RCN explains the 10 net gateways... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, this is unofficial from a friend who works for RCN: "Yeah, you are right about that. Forgot that little detail :-) We use 10. addresses for the modems because we don't have enough real addresses. Used to be the cm [cable modem] would get a real address and so would the client machine, but then we were using 2 IPs for every customer. We sold so much damn cm service that we had to stop doing that. As it is now, the cm gets a 10. and the cable modem is supposed to spoof that and tell the computer that the default gateway (cm) IP is on the same subnet as the client computer. Sometimes the Macs don't like that :-) Sometimes NT and Linux don't like that either, but the Windows 95/98/ME crew doesn't seem to mind. " Figured you might be interested after the recent talks.... -- David Raistrick Digital Wireless Communications davidr@dwcinet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message