Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 21:42:50 -0800 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: Re: Anyone have Comcast@Home cable modem service working with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199811250542.VAA02593@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:09:25 EST." <199811241809.KAA19635@hub.freebsd.org>
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--==_Exmh_572377716P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Stan Brown" wrote: > I have a FreeBSD machine that I use for my gateway to the internet via > a local dialup ISP, and user mode ppp, with IP alliasing. Works great!. Good...glad to hear this! > Now ComCast has just started offering cable modems in my area. Motorola > Bitsurfer, fixed IP address, up link speed 1.5MB downlink 3MB. Plus > they are offering free installation for a limited time. I am seriously > considering puting a second NIC card in thei box, and trying it. > > I was wondering if anyone had experience with Comcast@Home? Or any > experience with Motorola Bitsurfers? Any gotcha's that I should be > concerned about here? It sounds like ComCast is your local cable TV provider in Atlanta. Here at the very eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, we have TCI, and they also offer an @Home cable modem service. My installation uses a Motorola CyberSURFR (yes, that's how it's spelled, and I nearly gagged when I saw the box). Despite an incredibly cheesy name, it works just fine attached to my FreeBSD machine, and aside from a few mysterious outages, I've been quite pleased with the service. A few thoughts: 1. Different cable modem networks use different ways of allocating IP addresses. TCI@Home in my area allocates static IP addresses (as apparently ComCast is doing in your area), but some other networks do DHCP or other methods. 2. No one I've ever spoken to at @Home knows anything about FreeBSD. It sounds like you know what you're doing with respect to network configuration, so this probably won't be a problem. 3. It seems like the script kiddies like to rattle the doors of @Home customers a lot. Make sure you've taken some reasonable precautions to secure whatever machine you directly attach to the cable modem network. (Well, you should do this no matter what you hook up to, but that goes double in this situation.) 4. Instead of IP aliasing with user mode PPP, you'll want natd. Hope this helps... Bruce. --==_Exmh_572377716P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNluY2ajOOi0j7CY9AQF4IwP+M1TrkOroNiu5cMyT12YmMHlDxsDiBwVA TFOHSaW/NFNk5nQlt57nEXmE6t6vR4NTlwuop3FOLfLnk3O3YXlOe5vfBQni400m HTxq74t4JYCrwc9dnrLj0UM8om4AJSvcHwDRu2SGE4T40RI7+wKZ/zCVNPwixB0Q uAqBqRWEH6E= =e2IZ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_572377716P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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