[geeks] Common IP lease?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, April 1, 2002 at 14:41:54 (-0600), Shawn Wallbridge wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [geeks] Common IP lease?
>
> This was definitely SHAW'S equipment. He was interviewing as a Solaris Admin
> for SHAW! This was less than a month ago, so they are definitely still using
> Sun's.

It wouldn't be the first time a prospective employee was shown a room
full of machinery and explicitly given the wrong impression about it
all....  :-)

(or even taken away the wrong impression by accident....)

> But you are correct that that doesn't mean they are using Sun's for DHCP.
> But with all the Sun gear they have, it would seem kind of silly to use Sun
> for 95% of your systems and NT for one service (not that it couldn't
> happen).

Welcome to the corporate mindset.

My understanding is that the new Shaw Cable network is based out of
Calgary.  I don't know how strong the ties are between the GTA Shaw
Cable guys and the Calgary guys yet, but it would surprise me somewhat
to learn they're each going down their own path (esp. given the extreme
strangle hold Calgary has on the GT/Fiberlink guys!).  I don't know
enough about Shaw's internal network to know if they're running M$-NT
based DHCP servers for all their cable modems in the GTA, but to the
best of my third-hand knowledge some of their Terayon based network is
(or was until a few days ago at least) served from such systems.

You still haven't said what kind of cable modem you have.

(It makes and incredible difference, DHCP-wise, if it's a Terayon
proprietary model since in that implementation the DHCP requests are all
proxied by the gateway server at the head end.)

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