D'oh!

Fri Jan 11 18:37:49 UTC 2008

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:10:43AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Actually, some do.  For example, I bought one from Rogers a couple of 
> years ago, and when in off-line mode it will act as a DHCP server, 
> handing out those addresses.

When off line you aren't getting anything from your ISP.  The cable
modem was handing them out, not the ISP.  It wouldn't even have been
anything the ISP could configure in the modem I suspect.

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