Dumping IP Stack

i can t imagine why you wouldn t want to have an IP stack, but you can compile a new kernel without IP.
 
Well I'm not really very familiar with the term. But some moron Comcast Cable tech support guy was trying to get my dad to dump his IP stack so he could get the internet working again. Then when I got on the phone I asked him again.."What do you want to do?" And he said he wanted to dump the stack like "explained some way to do it in OS 9" and I politely told him that OS X is completely different, having very little to do with OS9. I told him it was basically unix. So with the hint of dumbness in his voice he said ok. I ended up suggesting they check the ethernet cable....Oh Yeah, it was it. Always the simple answer.

Though I am still curious of what it means to re-build the IP stack and if its necessary in OS X.

Thanks,
Dixon
 
yeah, i don t really know what that means. i assumed at first you meant that you wanted to get rid of IP, which is possible, but it would require a lot of hacking to the system.

i m not sure what he means when he says dump the IP stack. even in OS9 i don t really know what he might mean. i was a netadmin for while working almost exlusively with os9 macs (but also IRIX, solaris, windows, and cisco IOS), and i have never "dumped an IP stack". in windows, you can pretty easily uninstall TCP/IP, and reinstall it, and in fact doing that has sometimes solved some inconsistencies with tthe windows network. this might have been possible with OS9 too, although i m not really sure. OSX (or any UNIX), it would be quite difficult. IP is usually compiled into the kernel which means to get rid of it, you have to recompile the kernel (only possible with open source unices), and then fix up all the rc scripts and turn off all network services. sounds like quite a task. the reward for all that is that TCP/IP is much more reliable and much faster on such systems. but really i can t imagine what he wanted you to do.

so i am also curious. can anyone tell us? what did he tell you to do in some OS9 way?
 
sounds like he was referring to a memory area that contains the IP connections settings to me. Dumping a stack (to me) means clearing out a memory list structure.

R.
 
Originally posted by lethe
so i am also curious. can anyone tell us? what did he tell you to do in some OS9 way?
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He wanted me to go into the system folder and do something. I didn't really listen to him very clearly. I was too busy thinking..."this is not the right answer to this problem" because he said system folder and I knew he didn't know anything about OS X.

-Brian
 
Is it possible he was asking you to do a release and renew of your IP? If the provider is using DHCP for example, and you keep getting a 169. address, turning it onto manual, hitting apply, then switching back to DHCP and hitting apply in your Network control panel is the same thing as a release and renew on windows.
 
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