Steve Holdoway wrote:
Sad to say, I lay in bed last night thinking about this.
Yeah. Sorry about that.
Something along the lines of 'why isn't your dhcp server working just
because there isn't an ethernet connection?' My original thoughts were
of poor analysis
Mine.
and programming of the unit. But then it dawned on me that the dhcp
server can't start until it has all the information that it needs to
impart on to it's clients - like dns servers - which, of course will
be available when the dhcp client side of the router is set up from
the upstream dhcp server.
Sounds likely.
Because, of course, its primary function is as a router, not a dhcp
server. Only when it's configured can it provide its secondary services.
The DHCP worry was probably a red herring. Luckily I got the modem going
soon enough not to care about what had happened to it. Thanks for the tips.
Rik
- Re: telecom outage Richard Tindall
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