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At 11:18 AM 19/03/2003 -0500, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: >On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:13:31AM -0500, DJ wrote: > > I saw several messages like it and I tried to figure out what it was or > why > > it's doing it. I was completely stumped and I ended up using dhcpcd to > > retrieve my IP address from the server. So does anyone here happen to > know > > what kind of error is this and how to interpret it? It's not a problem > > but I'd like to see if I can fix it anyway, since it's a preference of > mine > > to use a different dhcp client. > >I've found only ISC's dhcpcd and the udhcpc in Debian to work >consistently with ATT. pump works intermittently, and I believe that >this is ATT's fault. Well that kinda sucked. I've used pump for... a few years perhaps? Maybe more than that. And I've never had any problem with it 'till now. So now I do not know what to blame: pump's inability to be consistent or AT&T's handing of their Internet service over to Comcast. "Smooth transition" my butt... > > PS: I'd try a different NIC but I'm unsure what exactly is the situation > > with NICs and AT&T/Comcast (plus, I'm out of spare NICs that has a > > DIFFERENT chipset). Previously I've been using the same NIC because AT&T > > supposedly locks cmodem access via the NIC's MAC address. Recently a > > friend of mine's NIC died and went out to buy a replacement. So we tried > > it, did not work, called up AT&T's support line, and was told that it > > should work since they don't track MAC addresses anymore. So which policy > > holds true? > >They used to, but they don't anymore. Well that answers my question then. Thanks. __________________________________________________________________ / keitaro AT attbi DOT com/IRC Nicks: Junta, Strider on #db/#ssppp \ | IRC Servers: irc.aus.org/irc.anime-chat.com ports 6660-6669/7000 | | = http://junta.darktech.org/public_key.txt -- GnuPG Public Key = | +-----[ "One shall stand, one shall fall..." - Optimus Prime ]-----+
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