From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 12 14:25:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles321.castles.com [208.214.167.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D66C15504 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:25:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01216; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:18:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903122218.OAA01216@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wes Peters Cc: 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: Your message of "Fri, 12 Mar 1999 00:03:58 MST." <36E8BC5E.66F7AC89@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:18:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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? ;^) 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message