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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:54:14 +0100
From:      Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
To:        Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>
Cc:        Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Broadband downunder
Message-ID:  <20010215145414.A55420@gvr.gvr.org>
In-Reply-To: <200102141136.f1EBatG18850@dungeon.home>; from mckay@thehub.com.au on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:36:55PM %2B1000
References:  <20010214020152.5079.qmail@web1604.mail.yahoo.com> <200102141136.f1EBatG18850@dungeon.home>

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:36:55PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote:
> 
> The usual deal is to pretend to be an avid Windoze user while the
> technician is there, then plug the network into your unix cluster
> when they've left.  The exact details on how to connect from FreeBSD
> or Linux vary, and I don't currently know any details.
> 

I have a cable modem that was installed by a couple of technical guys.
The provider, UPC, does only support M$ setups but that doesn't mean
you're not allowed to use other OSses. In fact the technicians were
very impressed with FBSD and how quick I had everythng working.
Especially when I did a tcpdump and showed them router sollicitations from
within the UPC network ;-)

-Guido


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