[H-GEN] Bigpond cable

[Ted Percival]

Geoff Shang wrote:
> I vaguely recall recent discussion on Bigpond Cable.  Does it still
> require a BIDS2 client such as BPALogin
> (http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net) or is it now just straight DHCP?  Or
> something else?  I thought I remembered reading here or somewhere else
> that the imfamous heartbeat was no longer needed, but can't remember the
> details.

I heard a rumour that the heartbeat was being phased out, and people
would be notified in advance. I haven't received a notification to that
effect. I still run BPALogin and it still reports logon successes.

IP addresses are still assigned by DHCP, too.

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tedp