[wellylug] Nightmares on Paradise (solved)
Nigel Roberts
nigel at nobiscuit.com
Wed Aug 11 15:15:38 NZST 2004
This is exactly right.
Since each technology (Com21 and DOCSIS) use different equipment at
both ends, they are in fact seperate at layer 2 which means they must
be seperate at layer 3.
They could be combined together, but why make a broadcast domain any
larger than it needs to be? :)
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 at 14:29:38 +1200, Sam Cannell wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:30:41 +1200, Donald Gordon <don at dis.org.nz> wrote:
>
> > On a vaguely related note, did they change your IP address when they
> > swapped your COM21 modem for a DOCSIS?
> >
> > donald (whose COM21 is still plugged into an ISA NE2000 clone)
>
> My understanding is that there are separate subnets for Docsis and
> Com21 users - I believe that anyone migrated from Com21 to Docsis will
> have their address changed.
>
>
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