From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 15 9: 0:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20A1814D8A for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 09:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199903130407.XAA17643@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Received: from localhost (jamie@localhost) by marsellus.itribe.net (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA15796; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:04:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:04:27 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Mike Smith Cc: Wes Peters , Charles Mott , 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: <199903122218.OAA01216@dingo.cdrom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > A staffer at WC recently ordered service from @home, and reported that > it took about 30 seconds to configure his FreeBSD system to use it, > compared to about 5 reboots and 30+ minutes for W95 on the same > machine. He's written up a FAQ entry for @home and is hoping that they > will add it to their list. The thing your going to run into here is that depending on your reseller(mine is cox@home service), depends on how you get your ip, and it's status. Mine is dhcp'd, but it's the same one everytime. I've run into other @home users on different cable systems with different setups. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message