From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 03:24:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0765616A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 03:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyer.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-83.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC7543D2F for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 03:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from circlesquared.com (localhost.petanna.net [127.0.0.1]) i38ARIdu034699; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:27:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <40752906.7020103@circlesquared.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:27:18 +0100 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040327 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob References: <4073D83E.70607@users.sourceforge.net> <407408E3.6030906@daleco.biz> <40742E58.3040904@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <40742E58.3040904@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: internet via USB: how to use with FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:24:32 -0000 Rob wrote: > > > I actually wonder, whether I should put a LAN card in the FreeBSD > system and connect that directly with the modem via a RJ45 cable, > and leave the USB adaptor out of the story. But would that work? > As a rule, it's a lot easier to use ethernet than usb with a FreeBSD (or Linux) gateway. You'll probably need to tell your network card to use dhcp, and you might need to turn off the cable modem for a few minutes when you change over the connection. If you ever need to change the network card or gateway computer (and hence the network card), you'll probably have to turn off the modem for a few minutes again, so the ISP can register the new MAC address of the card when the modem reboots. PWR.