Re: [nottingham] ntl cable modem

From: Simon Amor (simon@shoe.bocks.com)
Date: Wed 03 Oct 2001 - 23:01:33 BST


Simon Huggins wrote:
>
> 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.

That sounds like what I observed using tcpdump. It would send the
request from the 192.168. IP of the internal ethernet card. On bootup
it worked fine because eth0 was external, eth1 internal and it hadn't
brought eth1 up at the point at which it wanted to lease the IP.

  Simon

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