[ale] Linux and ASDL

[Tony Scalzitti]

Todd R. Palmer wrote:
> 
> Well, it's about time.  BellSouth will be offering ASDL starting in Atlanta in August
> check out:
> http://www.bellsouth.net/external/adsl/
> for details.  Details are a little sketchy, but prices are about $59.95 a month.
> They are requiring Windows 95 or NT, an ethernet card is installed.  Does anyone
> know any information on Linux and ASDL?
> 
> todd
> 
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>   Deep Thoughts,   By Jack Handey ....
>      To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music,
>      no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
> 
> Todd Palmer
> Developer
> t2palmer at avana.net
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Most likely because its "always on" and unlike PPP there is no standard
way of dishing out addresses.  They probally use DHCP for this (like the
cable modem companies do), and because they are a Sun Solaris shop they
don't associate DHCP with unix (solaris does not support DHCP
"out-of-the-box", not uncommon in commericial Unix).  In my experience
with cable modems they don't really use DHCP as you would expect, all
address are hard coded or resevrved much like bootp with its ethers and
host tables.  However in this configuration it does allow them to change
a address (although manually) and not require a reboot of the host, as
you would with bootp

I may be wrong, this is just how some cable modem companies do it...
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Thank you
Tony