From: phase90 (phase90@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 00:55:37 GMT-3
OK Pat I believe you! What got me wondering was on my subnet COMCAST had an
11-bit host
field - supporting 2,046 hosts which, in my experience with Windows and
broadcasting seems like alot. I don't think a traditional ethernet LAN or
Vlan for that matter would tolerate this many hosts on 1 segment and still
operate efficiently. This design issue just got me wondering a little bit.
Thanks for
all the replies.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: Brown, Patrick (NSOC-OCF} <PBrown4@chartercom.com>
To: 'phase90' <phase90@comcast.net>; ccielab <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 11:06 PM
Subject: RE: cable question - OT but should be simple
> How do you get your IP address! DHCP (255.255.255.255/broadcast)
> You can think of DOCSIS operations being the same as 802.1d.
> DOCSIS provides like transparent Ethernet service over the cable plant.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick B
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: phase90 [mailto:phase90@comcast.net]
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 7:54 PM
> To: ccielab
> Subject: cable question - OT but should be simple
>
>
> Hello group,
>
> In doing some simple setup of a LNKSYS hub on a
cable-modem
> account, the question occurred to me - Is this cable network considered
> broadcast or non-broadcast? Any takers ? responses most welcome.
>
> From my modest background I speculate non but then I have no hands-on with
> CMTSs. Thanks
>
>
> Jerry
> just wondering on COMCAST.NET
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