From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 5:55: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E7214BE1 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 05:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA35693 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:45:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for questions@FreeBSD.org (questions@FreeBSD.org) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 14:45:36 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <381EEB00.E6EDA27A@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <381EE199.BE53BDE3@cinci.rr.com>, <381EF37A.DA747E74@cinci.rr.com> Subject: Re: can't use internet after recompiling kernel Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Fincher wrote: > Now, I do have a few questions: First of all, why is something with > "security and privacy implications" required for something as simple as > dhcp? My understanding is that the problem is related to DHCP sending data while the interface still doesn't have an IP address. Whether this is allowed and what the exact consequences are varies between implementations. I don't know the details. > And also, this is just for my information: I ran NT with my cable modem > for about 3 weeks. During that time I rebooted many times and never > changed IP addresses. It was definitely nice. That's probably because the downtime is shorter than the refresh rate. > Then I ran Linux for at least a month. Every single time I rebooted, I > would end up with a new IP address. Everytime. It was not nice; I > constantly had to tell my friends my new IP address when they wanted any > files from me, or wanted to play quake3 on my server. Can't tell you why this happens. You'd better ask on some Linux mailinglists about this. > My first question about this is why are these operating systems > different? Because people are different. With some fuzzy logic you may conclude that OS's are equal to people :-) > My second, is can I look forward to those weeks (or more) of IP address > stability that I got in NT, even rebooting at least once a day or so? Yes, but remember: no guarantees! I know of a FreeBSD machine that has its IP address for almost a year that way, but your mileage may vary as they say... > Ok, and also, the linux netscape seemed much more stable in linux than > the freebsd netscape seems in freebsd. Should I try the linux netscape > in emulation mode? Yes. You'll find it less buggy, with the added advantage of having some plugins... -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message