From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 18 6:50:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F38214FA7 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [1.1.1.3] (203.108.21.7) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Mon, 18 Oct 1999 23:20:07 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 23:48:19 +1000 To: Arjan van der Oest , "Daniel O'Callaghan" From: jesse reynolds Subject: Re: cable modems and FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:54 PM +0200 18/10/1999, Arjan van der Oest wrote: >On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > > How hard is it to connect to a cable modem service with FreeBSD? > > I'm thinking of getting a Foxtel connection, which uses the Motorola > > 10Mbps/768kbps system. > >I'm using a FreeBSD 3.1-r machine, connected to UPC cable services here in >Amsterdam. The LANCity connects directly to a 10 Mbit/h NIC. According to >UPC I need to DHCP my NIC but after doing this once manually, my IP never >changed and I hardcoded this in rc.conf. I believe 3.3-r supports DHCP by >default from floppyboot. > >Btw: I'm NAT'ting on this FreeBSD machine to a small local net for a >windows machine and my laptop. Works excellent, although I hope UPC is >not subscribed to this list :) > >I'm not sure how this Foxtel connects to your machine, but if it's via a >NIC, you're safe. I don't have any experience with a serial cablemodem. BTW, the cable-modems here in Australia (Foxtel's) do radio frequency <-> ethernet (RF to 10BastT). I know someone who is using linux and ipfw to run a NAT'd lan off the one IP that Foxtel give him (DHCP) when he connects - he reports it works very well. No reason why it shouldn't work on FreeBSD too. -- Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au - http://virtual.artists Mobile: (+61) 0414 669 790 Faxmail: (+61) 02 9776 3594 Virtual Community Engine Email: jesse (at) va.com.au http://www.vce.net ?: http://jesse.va.com.au huh?: Content Management System ICQ: 4766684 & Application Server for Timezone: GMT +10:00 Hrs MacOS Webservers (W*API) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message