Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 17:01:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: DCMC Customer Liaison <bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cable Modems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971031165846.19672B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01bce642$9379e300$b7c04a83@DCMC.dcrb.dla.mil>
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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, DCMC Customer Liaison wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with setting up FreeBSD to access a Cable > Modem? >From what I understand, the normal procedure is to have an Ethernet card in the machine, plugged into the `cable modem' decoder. All you have to do is tell FreeBSD about the card, install a DHCP package, and all will be well. This assumes that the card in your box is a Ethernet card and not some sort of modem you talk with AT commands and such. > p.s. The current configuration only allows you to log on for eight hours, > then you have to/will be logged off and have to log back on. They said a > warning pops up after seven hours. So I figure I'll need a script to signon > and log off every six hours to avoid the warning messages. I have to wonder how they try to signal you on a UNIX box. :-/ And how do you resign-in on Ethernet? If you had some more details we could be more specific. My experiences are from what has come across this list, and your system sounds different from what other systems have. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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