From: glen herrmannsfeldt on
In comp.protocols.tcp-ip Didi <dp(a)tgi-sci.com> wrote:
(snip)

> There are DHCP servers in the absence of internet. For example, a
> popular type of cable models do assign IP addresses of the
> 192.168.... kind when it has no link over the TV cable.
> Routers do that whether they are linked to the internet or not.
> On which planet do you live.

There is internet, and there is the Internet. You can have a
network, even an internet (network of networks) not connected
to the Internet (the rest of the world).

Any of them may or may not have a DHCP server on them.

-- glen
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler on

"JosephKK"<quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> writes:
> First off the TCP/IP stack is 4 levels, and the ISO model is 7 layers.
> Thus there is intrinsic mismatch. Much of the TCP/IP model tools span
> two or more layers in the ISO model. The real deal for TCP/IP protocol
> definitions comes from the IETF RFC library.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
>
> Please note that this RFC information is freely available for any use.

note quite true anymore ... the copyright notice use to say that author
gives unlimited rights including any derivative works as long as the
IETF copyright notice was included. A couple years ago, that was changed
.... and now it ways that RFC authors may retain rights (so RFCs
published since the change are subject to the new copyright rules).

look at RFCs related to IETF Trust ... for instance 5377

5377 I Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to Be Granted
in IETF Documents, Halpern J., 2008/11/10 (8pp) (.txt=17843) (See Also
5378) (Refs 3935, 4071, 4371) (Ref'ed By 5744, 5745)

current documents carry the following

This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/
license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document.
Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights
and restrictions with respect to this document

.... i got hit with it and had to hire a copyright lawyer out of my own
pocket (situation where an attempt was made to try and apply the new
rules to RFCs published under the old rules) ... and suggested that they
needed to make it much more clear to the authors about copyright
changes.

--
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
From: Rick Jones on
In comp.protocols.tcp-ip JosephKK <quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> First off the TCP/IP stack is 4 levels, and the ISO model is 7
> layers. Thus there is intrinsic mismatch. Much of the TCP/IP model
> tools span two or more layers in the ISO model. The real deal for
> TCP/IP protocol definitions comes from the IETF RFC library.

The ISO and the IETF are both wrong. There are nine layers :)

https://www.isc.org/files/9layer.thumb.png

rick jones
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From: glen herrmannsfeldt on
In comp.protocols.tcp-ip Rick Jones <rick.jones2(a)hp.com> wrote:
(snip)

> The ISO and the IETF are both wrong. There are nine layers :)

> https://www.isc.org/files/9layer.thumb.png

The story I still remember is that between Europe and US
one wanted six and one eight (I don't remember which) so they
compromised on seven. Also, for ATM, one wanted 32 byte
payload, one 64, so they compromised on 48. (I would have
thought it would be geometric mean, though.)

-- glen
From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker on
Didi wrote:
> On Mar 30, 1:44 am, Hans-Bernhard Br�ker <HBBroe...(a)t-online.de>
> wrote:
>> Didi wrote:

>>> I tried today to figure out a simple way to give users of our
>>> new netmca (http://tgi-sci.com/tgi/nmcatb.htm) to locate its
>>> IP address once it gets one via dhcp when there is no internet
>>> at the moment

>> I believe that, strictly speaking, that can't happen. If you have no
>> internet at the moment, you don't have DHCP either. Remember that DHCP
>> itself is a UDP service. UDP in turn works on top of IP, and that, for
>> better or for worse, is "internet".

> There are DHCP servers in the absence of internet.

That's only true for a meaning of the term "internet" that IMHO rather
strictly contradicts with your self-proclaimed expertise in internet
technologies. What exactly did the 'I' in IP mean again?

> On which planet do you live.

One on which your personal opinion is not the normative reference for
the meaning of a technical term like "internet".

> Thank for the opinion. But you are posting to groups where some
> minimal understanding of how things work is implied,

.... says the person who obviously doesn't understand USENET well enough
to recognize that his cross-post is obviously off-topic in one of the
three groups he wrote to and on the fence of topicality for a second,
who didn't bother setting a Followup-To on top of that, and replies to
technical suggestions with ad-hominem attacks undiluted by technical
arguments. Cute.

> Have a look at the thread in its entity and you will see what
> I mean.

Interesting how you believe you know what I looked at and what I didn't.

> No offense meant,

Who do you believe you're kidding?

> just being practical and trying to save time to myself and the rest
> of the people who really had something to say.

Yeah, right. Writing the above really saved your time, as compared to,
say, not bothering to write it at all. Sure.

But if you're so sure I don't understand the issue, how about you start
arguing against my statements instead of against my person?