From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 20:29:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDEF152EB for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:29:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA07726; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:29:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903180429.XAA07726@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: cable modem install In-Reply-To: <36F02D0D.6DC4440B@eboa.com> from Roelof Osinga at "Mar 17, 99 11:30:37 pm" To: roelof@eboa.com (Roelof Osinga) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:29:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: jwb@homer.att.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (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 Roelof Osinga wrote, > Jim Ballantine wrote: > > > > I am planning on changing from a dial-up ISP to a cable modem ISP, > > download cable upload phone line, and am looking for information/ > > tutorial on installing a cable modem. In an earlier mail someone > > mentioned that the handbook has directions for this, but I must > > be searching incorrectly since I can't find it. > > > > Is there information/tutorial on this subject, and if so, where? > > There isn't much to do depending on your modem. I'm using a Com21 > cable modem which connects to an ethernet card. So you just install > an ethernet card and tell it its IP address and route. That's about > all there is to it. I think we're missing the point on the original poster's question. I also have a cable modem hooked up to a NIC, and it was a breeze. But I have a coax cable link that goes _both ways._ The original poster has a setup where uplink is via a phone modem, downlink is the cable modem. I'm sorry I can't help with answers, but several people have answered like this. It does not seem like it would be that simple. You need some program to interface with the phone modem, but how does one set up ppp (if that is the right choice) to only send, but have the NIC receive? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message