From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 11 23: 4:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E038214FF2 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02475; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 00:03:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36E8BC5E.66F7AC89@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 00:03:58 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Mott Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Src code for @Home NIC Card for Slaming into UNIX - Re: (Form posted from Mozilla (KMM25773C0KM)) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charles Mott wrote: > > 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. From their FAQ it sounds like they give you a single static address. With NAT, that's entire enough, now isn't it? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message