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Re: [TCLUG:11306] Mediaone & bootpc



Steve Siegfried wrote:
> 
> Gang,
> 
> I just switched from Mediaone's one-way cable to their two way service and
> have encountered a couple of "interesting" phenomonia.
> 
> Mediaone's two-way service hands out IP addresses via dhcp.  I use tcpwrappers
> and, about every 10 minutes while I'm "connected", I'm seeing 4 successive
> attempts to connect to my machine using bootpc (one about every 4 seconds)
> from the next machine up the traceroute tree.  Like, what's the deal with
> that?
> 
> Secondly, I use "usernet" to manage ip connections while on-line.  How come
> I can _only_ connect to Mediaone via dhcp if I fire up the connection during
> booting, but not via usernet?
> 
> Obviously, not a networking wizard'idly,
> 
> -S

The two way is an "always on" connection, why would you want to take it
down or up with usernet? 

-- 
Dave Erickson
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse
 never to have tried to succeed."
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