From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 26 05:46:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA08298 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 05:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from balrog.ml.org (tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.60.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA08293 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 05:46:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tbuswell@localhost) by balrog.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA07090; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199708261245.IAA07090@balrog.ml.org> From: Ted Buswell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting through Media-One (cablecom) In-Reply-To: <199708260241.WAA08990@spoon.beta.com> References: <199708260241.WAA08990@spoon.beta.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Brian" == Brian J McGovern writes: Brian> I'm curious if anyone has had any luck connecting a FreeBSD Brian> box to the Internet through Media One, or a similar I use Media One and it works just fine with FreeBSD. All you need is a DHCP client. I've had good results with the WIDE version, which easily enough can be found in port or package form. Brian> "broadband" provider. I'm assuming they do some type of Brian> dynamic IP assignment through their cablecom modem, but, as It's not dynamic in the same sense as dynamic PPP dialup. Your IP only changes when mediaone does some sort of massive renumbering. My IP has changed once in the 4 months that I've had the service. -Ted