From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 14:29:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05419 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 14:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mediaone.net (nvp.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.50.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05408 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 14:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nvp@mediaone.net) Received: (from nvp@localhost) by mediaone.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00918; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 17:31:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Nathan V. Patwardhan" Message-Id: <199809132231.RAA00918@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Using a cable modem with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <35FC2685.1CC0ECA3@home.com> from Scott at "Sep 13, 98 01:09:41 pm" To: sjm@home.com (Scott) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 17:31:27 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is it possible to use a cable modem with Freebsd? I have a motorola > cable modem connected to a 3com ethernet card and I am hoping that I can > use my cable modem with unix. How would I go about doing this Definitely! I'm doing it now -- I've got a static name and dynamic (or so they say) IP. You'll probably need to use a dhcp client of some sort. I'm currently using the wide-dhcp package, although I'm likely to switchover to ISC's dhcp-2.0 package when the actual 2.0 release comes out. In any case, both of these dhcp clients are available as ports and packages under FreeBSD. -- Nate Patwardhan, System Administrator O'Reilly and Associates nvp@oreilly.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message