netbsd-help: Re: IPv6 Alerts

Subject: Re: IPv6 Alerts
To: None <jeffrey@jeffreyf.net, netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/05/2002 10:35:03

On Jun 5, 9:51am, jeffrey@jeffreyf.net (jeffrey@jeffreyf.net) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: IPv6 Alerts
I think that the cable modems don't have mac addresses. They start up in
``bitch mode'' (Term coined by Andrew Brown who first determined their
behavior - he can explain more), which means that they listen on their
LAN side for the first mac address, and they advertise that mac address
on the WAN side. 
christos
| Thanks. I should have caught that!
| 
| I wonder if that isn't the mac address of the cable modem itself? Now
| that I think about it, I remember that the installer had to provide
| mac addresses for my PC's NIC and for the NIC in the cablemodem.
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Jeff Flowers
| jeffrey@jeffreyf.net
| 
| NetBSD rocks!
-- End of excerpt from jeffrey@jeffreyf.net