Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:59:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: dmb <nellie@home.com>, Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: Rick Knebel <rknebel@rknebel.csrlink.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modems Message-ID: <19980823145909.B4556@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808231504500.250-100000@cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com>; from "dmb" on Sun Aug 23 15:06:10 GMT 1998 References: <35E05E55.CF83EC2F@dal.net> <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808231504500.250-100000@cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 23), dmb said: > On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Studded wrote: > > Rick Knebel wrote: > > > Are cable modems supported in freebsd. > > > > FreeBSD ignores the cable modem entirely, and treats it like > > any old ethernet interface. So yes, it works just spiffy. :) If > > your cable modem uses DHCP (most do) then you may find the > > instructions at http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/dhcp.html useful. > > Well rr.com might use DHCP but @home network does not, not sure about > mediaone.net. It is quite simple actually just run sysinstall and > configure your ethernet and resolv.conf there. Make sure you have > all appropriate information. MediaOne does use DHCP, but according to their description of how their setup works (MediaOne really needs to cut down on the Java/Javascript; makes their site hard to navigate), they only reorg IP blocks when necessary. My guess is that once you allocate a particular IP, you'll keep it for months. So for installation purposes, you can probably boot up win95, get an IP, install FreeBSD using that IP, then install wide-dhcp. BTW, it looks like the reason that cablemodems are so blazing fast is that they simply proxy everything. Just about everything except telnet is cached. http://www.mediaone.com/express/central/twoway/how_it_works/diagram.html -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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