From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 17:18: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB8D14D3E for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA46910; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:18:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:18:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp client request for a netblk - ideas? In-Reply-To: <14182.57600.845707.33747@penny.south.mpcs.com> 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 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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message