Re: [nottingham] ntl cable modem

From: Graeme Fowler (graeme@graemef.net)
Date: Tue 09 Oct 2001 - 07:24:55 BST


On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Andy Davidson wrote:
> *nods* Check. On my old gateway, pump worked like a dream. Configuring
> it on the new gateway, about 4 months ago, it just would not work.
> Switching to dhclient, it was if there was never a problem at all (!).

Hmm... dhcpcd and dhclient both mention the DHCP/BOOTP RFCs somewhere in
their man pages/READMEs/other docs. pump doesn't. Telling.

> Bloody Red Hat nonsense.

But: *why* "On my old gateway, pump worked like a dream" ?

Sounds like time to pull out the source code to me. I bet this is a
combination of the newer TCP/IP implementations blowing it up. Anyone
fancy doing a rewrite?

G

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