[H-GEN] Re: Bigpond cable

Troy Piggins troy at piggo.com
Sun Jan 28 21:43:12 EST 2007


* Ted Percival is quoted & my replies are inline below :
> 
> 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.

Ditto on all points.

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