libera/#maemo/ Wednesday, 2018-12-05

Maxdamantus{-0-}: because there are no ethernet frames involved, so there's no destination MAC address for some gateway.00:50
Maxdamantus{-0-}: on ethernet, you look up the MAC address of the default gateway using ARP, and put that MAC address as the destination of frames wrapping IP packets that need to be send outside of your broadcast domain.00:52
Maxdamantus{-0-}: afaik, none of that makes sense on PPP/gprs00:52
DocScrutinizer05(01:19
DocScrutinizer05(-o0--)whatever, it's absolutely normal to find a service time of only 97% or less for the DHCP servers of carriers01:20
DocScrutinizer05and I even found my N900 hanfs up occasionally when confronted with a particularly evil misbehavior of my carrier's DHCP server, so I need to reboot to make it work again even in other cells with intact DHCP service. I *think* it's usually related to 3G->2G handover01:22
DocScrutinizer05hangs up*01:22
DocScrutinizer050.0.0.0 is dnsmasq way to do it, it's normal01:23
DocScrutinizer05a generic note on IRC nicks: it's pretty annoying if you can't type the leading 2 or 3 chars, tab nick completion only works after you did that, on most clients01:54

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