Re: TI-H: linux...

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Subject: Re: TI-H: linux...
From: Chris Cooper <cooper@fort-frances.lakeheadu.ca>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:37:15 -0500
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The Network I administer  uses DHCP on a class B segment of a larger A.  There is a
main Proxy at corporate, and we were going to get one here as well (but corporate
finally realized the redundancy in it)  I know many others that use DHCP with a Proxy

Adam Fritzler wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Matthew H. Fogle wrote:
>
> >
> > I used to work for AOL. They do know what they are saying; even when you use the
> > winsock connection to the network you are using there DHCP server's IP address
> > assigned to your machine and it does route threw a proxie. Although I personally
> > hate AOL as a provider after working for them I do see it has some nice features
> > that new users and intermeditate users can enjoy...
>
> Routing through a proxy is an oxymoron.  Anyone ever heard of the OSI
> stack?  Routing is IP-only (level 3).  Proxies run at layers above
> (usually layer 7).
>
> You obvisously have no idea how DHCP works.  By saying that they use DHCP,
> you've invalided your former statement that they use proxies.  If you use
> a proxy, most likely you won't go to the trouble of setting up DHCP.
>
> af
>
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Re: TI-H: linux...

From: Adam Fritzler <afritz@iname.com>