From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 11 22: 6: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from teton.srv.net (teton.srv.net [199.104.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FA0114F13 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:05:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@scientech.com) Received: by teton.srv.net; id AA18899; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:05:34 -0700 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:05:21 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Src code for @Home NIC Card for Slaming into UNIX - Re: (Form posted from Mozilla (KMM25773C0KM)) In-Reply-To: <199903120422.UAA10415@rah.star-gate.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: > You probably don't need their funky NIC card in all likelyhood their nic card > is an ethernet > card and if so you may want to kindly give TCI their "NIC Card" back --- > they really > ought to specify what exactly do they mean by "NIC Card". > > Amancio The question is, how are IP addresses assigned? The Time Warner "Road Runner" system is known to use a DHCP-like mechanism which has been deciphered. I haven't read anything about @Home. Of course, static addressing would be preferable. Charles Mott P.S. It's going to be a long time before I see a cable modem in eastern Idaho. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message