[ale] Linux and ASDL

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Tony Scalzitti wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 00:10:44 +0000
> From: Tony Scalzitti <tscal at vnet.net>
> To: t2palmer at avana.net
> Cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux and ASDL
> 
> 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?
> > 
	The price itself doesn't seem all that bad since I already pay
them almost $35 for each telephone line... But I doubt I'd go with
BellSouth personally... the company I'm workin for is lookin at gettin
some *DSL equipment soon so hopefully I'll be able to mess with it and see
how it works with my Linux machine here at home... We're kinda waitin to
see which DSL standard is goin to be adopt'd as the standard for DSL...
Don't want another K56flex, x2, v.90 situation... more trouble than it's
worth...

> 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
	Dependin on how this is done you can actually *GIVE* yourself a
static IP... most cable companies I've seen using DHCP will also give you
a specific IP if it is not in use... so we ARP'd for a whole subnet... had
no problem till they start'd wonderin why they ran out of IPs and started
comparin MAC addresses..

> 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...
> 

    Jeremy T. Bouse - SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc - www.STSI.net
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