From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 23 13:00:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16251 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16223 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 13:00:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18816; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:59:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980823145909.B4556@emsphone.com> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:59:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: dmb , Studded Cc: Rick Knebel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modems References: <35E05E55.CF83EC2F@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.2i In-Reply-To: ; from "dmb" on Sun Aug 23 15:06:10 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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