Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:29:33 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: adi milis <milisadi@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modem ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004181523100.13577-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <20000418190519.10676.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com>
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adi milis wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > has cable modem worked in freebsd ? > can anyone give me some links about it ? > if it is supported, What aspects should be considered > ? > > Thanks in advanced Yes, many home and corporate users have successfully configured and put cable modems to use in FreeBSD systems (including 3.x and 4.0). Though I am not affiliated with @Home, I have personally assisted about a dozen or so of MY business clients in FreeBSD setups using @Home's service. DHCP (used for dynamically assigning and requesting network addresses and services) is part of the base distributions now, and works rather well. Basically, if you use a supported Ethernet network card, and your cable ISP doesn't use proprietary connection protocols (I'm not aware of any that do, though it was rumoured that @Home's implementation of DHCP is a bit nonstandard--I've never had problems, though), you shouldn't have any problem configuring your cable Internet connection with FreeBSD. I'd rather do a cable install than a PPP install :-) Hope this helps, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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