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From: Jimbo Bahooli <moke@sucks.to.be.you.net>
To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>,
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Subject: Re: Cable-modems
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> 
> > Howdy,
> > 	My local TV provider announced they would offer Internet connectivity
> > through a Motorola product that will let you use an ethernet card to
> > connect to they fiber (TV) network .
> > I wanted to join, but the local provider doesn't offer details, and
> > Motorola says Unix is not supported. Anyone knows something about this?
> > Of course I said I wasn't interested, Internet without Unix is a
> > nonsense! But if the end-point is Ethernet, it should work.
> 
> I don't have a subscription myself, but it sounds like what Foxtel is 
> offering in Australia.  The Win95 box logs in to the network and the 
> "ethernet" switch registers its ethernet address, and an IP address is 
> assigned.  The IP address remains static for 24 hours, even if you log 
> out of the network.  So it *may* work if you have a dual-boot system - 
> boot in win95, log in to Foxtel, reboot in FreeBSD.

>From what I have heard most cable modem providers use dhcp to assign the
ip.  All you need with a unix is dhcpd and it will be able to pick up the
ip.  Windows95 has this built in so its 'supported' i guess.