From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 17:50:09 2003 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 9BFA837B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:50:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out.comcast.net (smtp-out.comcast.net [24.153.64.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A9943F75 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:50:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steves06@comcast.net) Received: from goldbug.sapovits.org (pcp02671656pcs.norstn01.pa.comcast.net [68.85.23.211]) by mtaout04.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:48:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:45:04 -0400 From: Steve Sapovits In-reply-to: <009e01c334fa$0bde1d00$0200a8c0@bartxp> To: Derrick Ryalls Message-id: <20030618204504.00007d3b.steves06@comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws11 (GTK+ 1.3.0; Win32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <009e01c334fa$0bde1d00$0200a8c0@bartxp> cc: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: television cable internet service 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, 19 Jun 2003 00:50:09 -0000 On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:58:18 -0700 Derrick Ryalls wrote: > To make life easy, I had a windows box laying around for the technician > to verify a live line with. Once it was live and he was gone, I > switched to using a BSD router on the connection. That's what I do. If I ever get to the point of having a tech come out (once, and it turned out to be a fried modem) I hook back up to my Windoze box. There's no point in trying to get them to support FreeBSD or even Linux. Just get it working yourself. As someone pointed out, Comcast uses DHCP. I've been running it on my FreeBSD box for over a year with no issues. Their support and tech's will tell you that you have to use specific OS'es, specific mailers, specific browsers, etc. but that's just how they're trained. One important note I learned early: If you have to reset your connection, unplug the modem for a few minutes. Simply turning it off doesn't do the trick. e.g., if you move the connection between a Windows and FreeBSD box when testing, unplug the modem in between. Also, watch out for IP changes. I had DHCP set up and working but my firewall rules had a hardcoded subnet. One day a new DHCP lease put me on a new subnet. If you ante up for their Pro service they will support VPN's, your IP will remain static except for big network changes, and you'll get faster speeds. -- Steve Sapovits steves06@comcast.net