Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 00:03:51 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cable-modems Message-ID: <339907D7.EC4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <3394B9F7.57C4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970603170937.61102@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199706070341.VAA11633@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > Pedro F. Giffuni scribbled this message on Jun 3: > % My local TV provider announced they would offer Internet connectivity > % through a Motorola product that will let you use an ethernet card to > % connect to they fiber (TV) network . > % I wanted to join, but the local provider doesn't offer details, and > % Motorola says Unix is not supported. Anyone knows something about this? > > John-Mark Gurney writes: > > there can be two meanings of supported.. a) it will work with the > > equipment listed, or b) we will make it work with the equipment listed... > > I'm pretty sure they are talking about b... they won't help you get > > your unix machine talking, but it you do, good for you... :) > > Most likely b. If you've got a Win95 machine around, since that is > *obviously* what they *are* supporting, set it up on that and watch the > traffic with tcpdump. It should be pretty clear what's going on, and > how to configure your FreeBSD system to use it as well. Some of the > cable modems are actually TCP/IP routers using SDLC PPP on the cable > side. > No need to get to that point, it's clear they don't support UNIX because they don't want to go everywhere building a DHCP client that is required. There are two possible roads: 1) Convince them to provide an static address (very difficult) 2) Build the DHCP package under development in www.isc.org A login script may be required, but since I pay the same for 24 min. or 24 hours, I'll simply leave my box up all time :). thanks to everyone that replied, Pedro. > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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