On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:48 -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > On 5/1/07, Bruce Hudson wrote: > > > > ...you should probably rethink what you are doing > > Preaching to the choir, my friend. ;-) Unfortunately, I don't have > enough political clout to stop/change the VoIP deployment. Think 1000 > phones (or more) rebooting all at once. Harmless. Even in Austria, some of the smaller cable networks today have more than 2000 cablemodems. And all use DHCP. And if you reboot the CMTS/headend, all of th cablemodem boot. And the DHCP server (on small/cheap hardware) is not the bottleneck. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services