Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:58:40 -0700 (PDT) From: David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu> To: Bruce Petro <bpetro@usa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Attaching to new Cable Modem Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000802085807.27026A-100000@sloth> In-Reply-To: <386160137.965231528001.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com>
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Check out http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd David Software Engineer - NetManage Work email: david.daugherty@netmanage.com Home email: doc@wcug.wwu.edu ICQ 21106703 Washington State Resident On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Bruce Petro wrote: > Any one have some help for this? I don't see a > section in gregg's book on this (though mine > might be an old ver)- I mostly see serial info. > > This is new (Time Warner's road runner) and according > to the setup appears to be not a serial conn at all. > (the cable modem that is). > > You reach the CM via a nic, the windows directions that > come with it show you set up the nic with no IP address > you go out to DHCP to get your address. You set > no DNS (evidently gets negotiated via DHCP), no > gateways, no WINS, etc ... > > How would this get configured? > > If anyone can help with the above, that's where > I believe I must start, just in case, however > let me describe the big picture after this step... > All of above, I guess is step 1, then I gotta add a > second nic with an internal IP and THEN I'll have > a nice internal network, with the FreeBSD > handling all the external for my machines (well, > once I set BSD up to do the proxy or masc. stuff > anyway). Its my impression I must go with dual > nics since otherwise the address given my BSD > machine will change constantly and internal > machines would not know how to contact > it - correct? > > Thanks, > Bruce. > > > ______________________________________________ > FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com > Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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