From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 17 6:35:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CA337B40B for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veager.jwweeks.com ([65.14.122.116]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011017133539.KURO15859.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@veager.jwweeks.com>; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:35:39 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:35:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks X-Sender: jim@veager.jwweeks.com To: Dennis Mathiasen Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modem choices In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This article is a pretty good starting point, it deals with @home service, but most configurations will be similar. Wouldn't hurt to check out FreeBSD.org for DHCP configuration. http://www.freebsddiary.org/athome.php -- Jim Weeks On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Dennis Mathiasen wrote: > > I haven't been able to locate information on how these things actually work. > Apparently the ISP just uses DHCP, but what about any authentication? > > Are the modems themselves all functionally the same? Most manufacturers > don't say that they work with UNIX. Is the situation the same as with phone > modems v. "win modems"? > > I'd appreciate any suggestions which one to buy. Thanks. > > Dennis Mathiasen > dennislm@dreamscape.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message