From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 12 9:20: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC241538B for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:19:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id MAA00881; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:19:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903121719.MAA00881@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Src code for @Home NIC Card for Slaming into UNIX - Re: (Form posted from Mozilla (KMM25773C0KM)) In-Reply-To: from Charles Mott at "Mar 11, 99 11:05:21 pm" To: cmott@scientech.com (Charles Mott) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:19:27 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 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. As my address implies, I have @Home service. Specifically, I have Comcast@Home in NJ. I have had the same IP since I got service (in October). I was left a little data sheet by the "techncian[1]" who installed my NIC with the IP addresses of my machine and the DNS. I had to guess at the gateway. I have used DHCP to see if anyone out there is listening and there is no DHCP server on my LAN. I assume that means we are static. BTW, back to the NIC, the one they put in my machine is a pretty generic piece of equipment that has never given me any grief[2], % dmesg [snip] de0 rev 33 int a irq 11 on pci0:14:0 de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 2.1 [snip] I asked on the phone about NICs before I got my service, and they told me they just use off-the-shelf products that they can get a good deal on at the moment. Typically, the techie that comes brings some ISA and PCI ones depending on what there is room for in your machine. [1] Mine looked like she could have been an extra from that new 'Carrie 2' movie. If she was out of highschool, she fooled me. [2] But coax is not always all it is cracked up to be. At the moment I am suffering through about 20% packet loss. I am 'ssh'ed into my home computer from work. Coax cable on one end, a fractional T1 here at work.. but with the ploss it is worse than a modem. Here's a snip of my traceroute, 6 phl0-1.pne0-1.verio.net (129.250.2.133) 10.136 ms 10.292 ms 13.204 ms 7 sprint-nap.home.net (192.157.69.85) 13.015 ms 15.612 ms 19.236 ms 8 * * * 9 * r1.rdc1.nj.home.net (24.3.128.2) 66.767 ms 56.600 ms 10 * cr2.ewndsr1.nj.home.net (24.3.196.55) 73.549 ms 69.407 ms 11 cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (24.2.89.207) 109.903 ms * 80.967 ms Problem looks to be inside of @Home. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message