[wellylug] Nightmares on Paradise (solved)

[Chris Hodgetts]

I always understood there was two Head Ends for both modem networks...

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 15:15, Nigel Roberts wrote:
> 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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