Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:20:51 -0800 (PST) From: Tyler McGeorge <millioncheese@yahoo.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>, treznor@sunflower.com, Steve <vandena@nwf-soccer.com>, Rafael Caballero Jr <rcaballero@mindspring.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a cable modem Message-ID: <20010302032051.56703.qmail@web12501.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010301115731.B16644@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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I've failed to follow this thread recently, and I would like to insert that my experiences with Roadrunner Cablemodems are from those that are located in Topeka, Kansas. I've seen two different cases (They weren't at the same time, so I can't tell if they were two different policies from different hubs or if they changed their protocol) but one required you to "login" to check mail, whereas the other would not let you do anything at all without "login"ing in, it would assign the IP address, but would not allow data throughput. Just a tad more info, Tyler --- David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:53:51AM -0500, Neill > Robins wrote: > > Thursday, March 01, 2001, 8:44:04 AM, you wrote: > > BM> Tyler McGeorge wrote: > > >> > > >> Most Roadrunner cable modems require you to > "login" or > > >> some such nonsense. > > > > BM> Really? Where do they do that? None of the > ones in Columbus require any > > BM> "login" > > > > I think that was limited only to the services in > San Diego at one > > time. I don't believe the login is needed at > hardly any of the other > > RoadRunner networks. At least not in North > Carolina. > > Know of two users with Comcast@Home in Huntsville, > AL, one somehow > wrangled a static IP address. The other had to > upgrade from MacOS 7.6.1 > so that the DHCP client could pass an optional > parameter back to the > DHCP server. Cable installer called this parameter a > "password". > > Search the archives as others have documented how to > insert this extra > data in the DHCP script(s) in order to get > "registered" with the > cable system. > > Think my ISP does much the same thing but with the > MAC address of my > NIC. Pretty easy to change the MAC address under > FreeBSD so I went > weeks after an upgrade before remembering to call in > the new MAC > address to the ISP. > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net > ===================================================================== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten > percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating > system. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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