On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Ryan Finnie wrote:
Ryan -
[... much deleted ;)]
> So what does a person like me do given this situation. Several things can
> be done:
> 1. Use Windows for the router.
never. not a serious option (imho)
> 2. Use Linux for the router, specifying the -B option to dhcpcd.
> 3. Use Linksys for the router, but doing #1 or #2 first to bootstrap the process.
> 4. Try to get ahold of an engineer at Linksys and suggest the ability to
> set a config option to specify what mode the dhcp client should use,
> broadcast or unicast.
ad 4.: How difficult is it to get hold of someone w/ clue [in phone hours] ?
4b. get rid of charter. they recently raised prices and my nv-bell dsl
runs about as good, with slightly higher performance. Although takes
about 1/2 hour of faq reading and fiddling to setup their ppp-o-e.
5. run freebsd as a fw router (with no mouse, graphics card etc.) and don't
care.
5b. Once every 2-3 months I had to "reboot" the modem though.
Rainer
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