Re: Setting specific IP address?

From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 05/13/05

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    In article <Xns96549A8FF510Cabcxyzcom@127.0.0.1>, nemo_outis wrote:

    >The speeddemon site and folks are flaky and disreputable, true. But WTF
    >would one expect when buying hacker tools? (and that's what they clearly
    >are despite the "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" stuff to give - a very thin -
    >veneer of legitimacy). Actually, their longevity is amazing given their
    >"business model."

    The 'Powers That Be'(tm) here would go ballistic. (But bear in mind that
    these are the same kind of boss who wants to run windoze so that when the
    bovine droppings hit the air handler, they can blame the software company
    and sue them - in spite of our rebuttal to read the license they have on
    their windoze box at home.) The only use I can see for this card is that
    it's one of a number that can have their hardware address changed. I've
    been doing that for years.

    >Moreover, their boards do work fine (at least mine has). As for the
    >software, I agree the "works under this or that OS" stuff is vague but it
    >only really means that their software front end(s) can access their
    >hardware to program it - and that's not very OS-version dependent.

    That's true, but after you've programmed it, what driver are you going
    to use to talk to it from the operating system. The last time I looked at
    Donald Becker's site, the 'netdriver' tarball had 20 different drivers for
    PCI network cards, and if you felt around, there were a bunch more for those
    ancient ISA, EISA, and VESA cards. The Linux 'Ethernet-HOWTO' lists over 80
    different drivers. I don't have a kernel source handy, so I don't know how
    many drivers come with the kernel right now. So, which one will talk to
    this card?

    >Net result: 1/10 for style points, 10/10 for effectiveness. (Well, maybe
    >a 2-point deduction for being grossly overpriced.)

    Yeah, I also noticed that. I don't know what we're paying for NICs, but
    we're also buying about 700 a year, so I know we're getting some kind of
    volume pricing. Certainly, you can buy Intel E1000s for under US$100 in
    onezies last I checked.

    >Yes, he can spoof the MAC in software, but a hardware-programmable NIC
    >card is much more convenient and versatile.

    It is if there is a working driver for the O/S. Otherwise, it's just
    expensive useless hardware.

            Old guy

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