Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:48:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joey \"bear-\" Garcia" <root@pacificnet.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Cable Modems and FreeBSD Question Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980817214125.276B-100000@mustang>
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Hey guys/gals! Okay I got a pretty simple question. Well, actually I have two questions. Let me fill you in on my deal and then list the questions on order. I was thinking about getting a cable modem service from Media One here in the Los Angeles area. I don't know much about their reputation on the cable modem deal since it's a pretty new service, but I thought I'd give it a try. My questions are: 1) According to Media One, I must have a TCP/IP stack that supports DHCP addressing. Does FreeBSD support this, and would it be easy to set FreeBSD up with a cable modem? 2) What do you guys think about those cheap NE2000 compatible boards that you can get from the Computer Shows? They any good? I've looked at a few of those boards and I noticed that none of the boards I looked at had jumpers. I've never set up a network card before, so I dont know what would be up with the IRQ's and stuff. I'm just worried that I might get a PnP type NIC instead of a good ole' "set the jumpers" type NIC. Any ideas? Well, that that seemed like more than two questions, but I'd appreciate the help. Thanks! Joey Bear Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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