On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Greg Eavns wrote:

> on 2/28/99 9:43 AM, Dan McMahill was rumored to have said...
> >On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Greg Eavns wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> >what is "1 way"?
> 
> Dan,
> 
> 1 way means that it is an incoming only cable modem..e.g. I have kickass 
> incoming bandwidth, but a mere 28.8 outgoing bandwidth.  it is a "Hybrid" 
> (that is the brand) Cable modem.  There is no special software on the Mac 
> Side to get the modem to dial out, it just does as needed.
oh.  hmmmm.  Is the 28.8 outgoing phone line modem built into the cable
modem?  How does it know where to dial to on the MacOS side?  Are you also
running FreePPP or something similar?

> Here's what I see at startup:
> 
> configuring network interfaces.
> value 344 exceeds max (255) for precision
> Listening on BPF/sn0/08:00:07:c6:14:82/unattatched
> Listening on BPF/sn0/08:00:07:c6:14:82/unattatched
> Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
> DHCPDISCOVER on sn0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 intreval 15
> can't connect to sysconf socket: no such file or directory
> DHCPDISCOVER on sn0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 intreval 14
> No DHCPOFFERS received
this means your computer asked for configuration and didn't get a reply.
However, if it didn't dial, than clearly the server never got the request.

> Trying recorded lease <null address>
> /etc/dhclient-script: 175: Syntax error: end of file unexpected 
> (expecting "fi")
I vaguely seem to recall seeing this once.  Sounds like a bug to me.
In fact looking at my dhclient-script I seem to have added a fi , 18 lines
up from the end (just before

ifconfig $interface inet -alias $new_ip_address $medium

-Dan