[H-GEN] Telstra Big Pond Cable & OpenBSD

[Rob Kearey]

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Daniel Quinlan wrote:

> > On a related matter; does anyone know what IP addres either Optus or Telstra
> > provide on cable? Is a real world IP accessable from the internet or an internal
> > IP?

> the IP my friend had on Telstra was a real world IP
> bear in mind it is a dhcp assigned address, but if you're using a unix box
> to attach to the cable network it's more likely to stay on and keep the lease

I had a chat to the Optus at Home people the other day - they said that in
all probability customers would recieve an actual non-private IP.

> Daniel Quinlan                          daniel at netwise.net.au

Rob K

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