On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:21:03PM +0100, Andy Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, RichardN wrote:
> >On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, James Maitland Chapman wrote:
> >> Does anyone have a similar configuration and could either provide
> >> me with, or point me in the direction of the necessary settings?
> >With the cable modems which come from ntl (mine here is a surfboard
> >from motarola) the modem will just dhcp you a lease with your ip
> >address, so you should be able to use something like dhcpc, dhclient,
> >or pump.
> I switched from pump to dhclient, because pump kept dying. Everything
> else has been pretty painless though
pump won't work. Been there done that :)
From a source I trust but apparently not on a public archive:
>> I suspect that pump() binds its UDP socket to 0.0.0.0 aka.
>> INADDR_ANY. When sending a packet, Linux inserts the address of
>> another interface, instead of 0.0.0.0 like we want.
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