Re: surfin' on cable!
Hm, I'm on Rogers in Vancouver and I'm not using dhcp at all. For the record, seems to work fine for a week now. Hm, should I expect imminent disaster? -chris On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: Woohoo! Last night I upgraded to kernel 2.2.17 from Potato, modified lilo, rebooted, and dhcpcd and my sound module both worked. I'm surfing on cable and playing MP3s. ;-) Pump didn't work because it doesn't appear to have an argument for a client ID, which seems to be required from Rogers. dhcpcd does, and it worked great. Very, very cool. Many thanks to those who responded. Apparently it was a bad 2.2.12 kernel, probably modified by VA Linux Systems. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com:8080 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: surfin' on cable!
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 10:44:31AM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: Hm, I'm on Rogers in Vancouver and I'm not using dhcp at all. For the record, seems to work fine for a week now. Hm, should I expect imminent disaster? -chris I think the IPs are fairly stable, I'm only using dhcp because of its automated nature, and on a suggestion from someone. I'll probably move away from it as I learn more. Mike
Re: surfin' on cable!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Chris Majewski wrote: Hm, I'm on Rogers in Vancouver and I'm not using dhcp at all. For the record, seems to work fine for a week now. Hm, should I expect imminent disaster? -chris This is probably not wise. Since the DHCP server is unaware of the fact that you're occupying one of the IP addresses under its control, it doesn't know not to assign that IP address when somebody needs one. You setup will continue to work until the DHCP server assigns another box on the cable network the same IP. Bad things will happen when it does that, though. You might as well use DHCP. It won't change your IP address unless your machine is down for a significant amount of time, the DHCP server needs an IP, and yours is the next one in the queue. Usually you'll get the same IP even after a reboot, since you DHCP client keeps a cache of the last IP address given and will request that address specifically when starting. The server will re-issue that address to you in all cases except where it has issued it to somebody else. noah ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOW9bO4dCcpBjGWoFAQFQswQAhvwRvRdEYoWM4XkQjmMjBLCYOpYzvMHq SEJT4CrlQ5uxQZgkFsE7KfTzeZ4hGSzYHqWKpdbQRtvVkZECIqX8Ub+/r6w9HyAg l6YT6t9pwYjOKNSPlPQEY17e2H+1/LMnf2rI+DbmpcHCtnHv2/IWvNeoj6FLA33O T6K6yfxLJCo= =TizF -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: surfin' on cable!
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 10:44:31AM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: Hm, I'm on Rogers in Vancouver and I'm not using dhcp at all. For the record, seems to work fine for a week now. Hm, should I expect imminent disaster? -chris Mine (Rogers in Waterloo, ON) has been working without DHCP for around 10 months now. It seems they provide dhcp as a convenience to Windows users, but don't require it to be used. -Dan -- ... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human malice would never have taken so devious a course! - RFC 1122 section 1.2.2 pgpIC3vghZIpq.pgp Description: PGP signature
