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Date:      Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:38:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Dowdal <jdowdal@destiny.erols.com>
To:        High Voltage <zapper@idsmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: @Home Connect.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910031835010.44787-100000@destiny.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: <37F7CE27.2C6B849E@idsmail.com>

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One additional note for setting up @home, or most other cable modem
services, (hmm .. any more words to throw in here for the search engine?)
make sure you power cycle the cable modem when switching between two
computers.  When the cable modem powers up, it locks itself onto the MAC
address of your ethernet card, and only listens to packets from that one
address.  If you go from one computer to another (or one ethernet card to
another), you must power cycle the cable modem to reinitialize the MAC
address, otherwise the connection will appear totally dead.  Two friends
of mine have wasted hours on this; lets get this archived to keep anyone
else from wasting all this time.

Otherwise, its quite easy to set up.  You could set up the DHCP client, or
else just run 'winipcfg' on the windoze machine they set up to get your
IP, netmask, gateway, dhcp server, and DNS server, and punch that
information into the BSD machine.

On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, High Voltage wrote:

> Hi
> 
>   Does anyone know where I can find info on how to set FreeBSD 3.3
> Stable up for a @Home connect?  I'm getting @Home installed this Friday
> and I'd like to be prepared.
> 
> Thanx
> 
> 
> 
> 
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