[plug] dlink dsl-300

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Dec 4 14:49:40 WST 2003


On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:41:30PM +1100, Onno Benschop wrote:

| It gets even more evil...
| 
| My modem is a DHCP server and my Linux box is one too. Because the modem
| is always slower in responding to DHCP requests, the Linux box "wins",
| so I do in fact have a really evil setup, where there are two DHCP
| servers on the network...

Ewwww!  I think I'll stick to having two network cards in my gateway,
thank you :-)  Amongst other things I wouldn't want to count on my
much-abused gateway being able to "win" anything when it's doing other
stuff at the same time.

Cameron.




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