From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 6 22:08:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00262 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 22:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co ([168.176.15.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00257 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 22:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem09.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.39]) by ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01015; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 00:08:34 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <339907D7.EC4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 00:03:51 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters CC: John-Mark Gurney , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cable-modems References: <3394B9F7.57C4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970603170937.61102@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199706070341.VAA11633@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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