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Author Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-freefirmware
Tollef Fog Heen

2004-03-31, 2:33 am

* Nathanael Nerode

| (Incidentally, the more I hear about DSL, the more it sounds like it
| sucks big time. Cable modems just act like a nice black box which
| you plug an Ethernet cable into, and don't require *any* drivers for
| the OS, let alone firmware downloads from a host machine -- any
| firmware downloads come from the cable company. Why do DSL modems
| work differently?...)

And I guess that cable modem also does NAT or something equivalent?
The whole reason why I want said DSL card is so I can do stuff like
bringing up IPv6 tunnels properly, update DNS and also have a real,
non-broken packet filter. The provider-provided router doesn't
provide any of this, and doing it through that would be painful, if at
all possible.

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Tollef Fog Heen

2004-04-04, 8:34 am

* Nathanael Nerode

| > The whole reason why I want said DSL card is so I can do stuff like
| > bringing up IPv6 tunnels properly,
|
| Yeah, I can do that.

How does the cable modem notify your box when the cable provider
reboots the service and you get a new IP (or are they allocated
statically, thereby bypassing the problem)? In order to update DNS,
IPv6 tunnels and such when the link goes up and down, I need to know
about those changes.

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