From: jared r r spiegel (jrrsice-nine.org)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 13:36:31 CST

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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:25:02PM -0700, Ryan Walker wrote:
> Awhile back (2+ years), I remember investigating a DSL solution that was
> geared for hotels - I believe it was a company called "Elastic
> Networks", and one of the features they had was the same as what you've
> got listed here. It did DHCP by default, but also had the ability to
> detect (and compensate for) fixed IP, DNS & GW settings.
>
> I have no idea how this was accomplished, but I do believe that this
> functionality is out there.

  it seems that elastic networks = siemens' 'speedstream' division in
  some way shape or form.

  i've seen 'elastic networks stormport's around romney wv, which use
  a PPPoA/E client called 'enternet 300' to authenticate onto the ISP's
  DSL network.

  also seen 'speedstream 5260' or '5262' dsl modems in a few regions where
  the ISP is doing either RBE or RFC1483 such that the IP gotten from the
  ISP lands on the customer's external interface when everything is working
  right -- but if it is not working right, the modem will give an RFC1918
  IP to the external interface ( ie, either DHCP was unreachable or the
  DSL synch was not achieved ).

  not sure if that relates to anything , but i thought to throw it out there.

  jared

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