Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Andy Sparrow
> Or "broad-band-ly speaking"? Yes, exactly... :-) > AT&T Broadband Internet will not give you a static IP or permit > you to run a server (they have blocking hardware in place) unless > you sign up for "business service", which means you give them > about four times the monthly fee vs. a "home

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Andy Sparrow
> Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which > you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work > successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac > addresses of unix boxes and Apple macs I have and they seem to have alot o

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-03 Thread Andy Sparrow
> Often, once the cable company sees a MAC address, it filters all > other MAC addresses from getting a lease from your wire. This is true, broadly speaking. If they're mildly clueful (and probably if you convince them that you are), you may be able to get them to either add multiple MAC addr

Re: MIB support for network devices in FreeBSD?

2002-06-08 Thread Andy Sparrow
> I believe you can get this info if you add the net/snmp or net/snmp4 > port. Hi Larry, Thanks for replying. Hmmm. I'm talking about code that uses a FreeBSD-specific sysctl to interrogate the in-kernel if MIB counters, like this: /* gather stats */ int freebsd_sysctl_get(struct Devices*de

MIB support for network devices in FreeBSD?

2002-06-08 Thread Andy Sparrow
Hi all, (pls Cc: me on any response, not subscribed to either list) Can't find any references to this in the archives. What's the status of MIB support for network interfaces in FreeBSD? Is it deprecated, optional, "would be nice"? Reason for asking is that a dockapp I use has stopped displ