On Tue, 23 May 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> James Sutherland wrote:
> > Sending the bootp requests through every card is the remaining choice,
> > then?
>
> Doing so seems to violate good-neighbor policy,
Perhaps; OTOH, is a surplus bootp request packet really harmful?
> and also has the potential of waking up links, including fee-based
> links, unnecessarily.
In all the cases I've experienced for chargeable on-demand links, the IP
addresses are allocated by the gateway itself, and don't involve
connecting. I suppose you could have, say, a remote office LAN over a
routed link, and all the IP addresses are allocated by a central server;
that would involve dialling up... :-(
James.
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