[H-GEN] Motorola Cable modem

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-11-12, Michael Anthon wrote:

> Going on past experience, I'm going to guess that smoothwall uses pump as it's 
> dhcp client.  I had trouble and I know others have as well using pump on 
> Optus.  Installed the ISC dhcp client and all was happy.

This all sounds pretty normal.

> I can't explain why 
> this was the case as it doesn't make sense.

It makes perfect sense -- there are bugs in the various pieces
of software.  At the time you did this, the bugs in ISC's DHCP
client interoperated nicely with the bugs in the Optus DHCP
server (quite possibly also from ISC).  Next week, different
bugs might be helpful in working with some other server.  This
is the way of software, especially from a select set of vendors
that includes ISC.

Cheers, Greg

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