From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 5 9:44: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BA714CF3 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:44:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbettle@criterion-group.com) Received: from criterion-group.com ([24.5.44.161]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990805164337.QNDK3787.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@criterion-group.com>; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:43:37 -0700 Message-ID: <37A9BFFE.B4425623@criterion-group.com> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 09:46:54 -0700 From: Roy Bettle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Hartrell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEBSD, Proxy Server, Cable Modem References: <000801bedf4e$7e4a6340$86e3a7d1@infopreneur.net> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------26EC74778EA3E200BD72E13B" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------26EC74778EA3E200BD72E13B Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------3813B6D2CEFD1C161A4B21F8" --------------3813B6D2CEFD1C161A4B21F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good morning. We're located in SoCal and use the @Home Network's cable connection to provide access for our 9-computer lab at home (oops! almost a pun there). They tried to "bamboozle" us with that NetBIOS crap out here, too. In fact, I had some well-meaning but thoroughly ignorant tech "support" drone try to teach me about how I couldn't connect using static IP address assignment; had to use DHCP. Yeah. Anyway, here's how it works for us: 1) on your yellow copy of the account information from @Home, you will have a "Host Name" assignment that looks something like "cx-87345"; this needs to be your new machine's "Host Name" as well; 2) make sure you use static IP address assignment; my experience with @Home is that they can't keep a DHCP (or DNS for that matter) server running ... maybe because they're an NT shop? Other than that, everything should work out pretty well for you. Anyone have something I missed? RAB Greg Hartrell wrote: > Hi there, I recently ordered FreeBSD as a CDROM because I'm interested > in setting up an internet proxy server using my @home connection. > Now, @home requires that a window box has a specific Netbios name for > it to properly communicate with the cable modem. I noticed you have a > number of resources on setting up FreeBSD as a proxy (TIS, SQUID, > etc.) but are there any success stories sharing a cable modem? I'm > perfectly willing to read, read, read. I was just wondering if you > know where to look.... Thanks, Greg --------------3813B6D2CEFD1C161A4B21F8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good morning.  We're located in SoCal and use the @Home Network's cable connection to provide access for our 9-computer lab at home (oops! almost a pun there).

They tried to "bamboozle" us with that NetBIOS crap out here, too.  In fact, I had some well-meaning but thoroughly ignorant tech "support" drone try to teach me about how I couldn't connect using static IP address assignment; had to use DHCP.  Yeah.  Anyway, here's how it works for us:

1) on your yellow copy of the account information from @Home, you will have a "Host Name" assignment that looks something like "cx-87345"; this needs to be your new machine's "Host Name" as well;
2) make sure you use static IP address assignment; my experience with @Home is that they can't keep a DHCP (or DNS for that matter) server running ... maybe because they're an NT shop?

Other than that, everything should work out pretty well for you.  Anyone have something I missed?

RAB
 

Greg Hartrell wrote:

Hi there, I recently ordered FreeBSD as a CDROM because I'm interested in setting up an internet proxy server using my @home connection.   Now, @home requires that a window box has a specific Netbios name for it to properly communicate with the cable modem. I noticed you have a number of resources on setting up FreeBSD as a proxy (TIS, SQUID, etc.) but are there any success stories sharing a cable modem?  I'm perfectly willing to read, read, read.  I was just wondering if you know where to look.... Thanks, Greg
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