From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 23 12:11:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13944 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com [24.2.5.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13938 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:11:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nellie@home.com) Received: from cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com ([24.3.111.2]) by ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA1976; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:10:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:06:10 -0400 (EDT) From: dmb To: Studded cc: Rick Knebel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modems In-Reply-To: <35E05E55.CF83EC2F@dal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Studded wrote: > Rick Knebel wrote: > > > > Are cable modems supported in freebsd. > > FreeBSD ignores the cable modem entirely, and treats it like any old > ethernet interface. So yes, it works just spiffy. :) If your cable > modem uses DHCP (most do) then you may find the instructions at > http://home.san.rr.com/freebsd/dhcp.html useful. Well rr.com might use DHCP but @home network does not, not sure about mediaone.net. It is quite simple actually just run sysinstall and configure your ethernet and resolv.conf there. Make sure you have all appropriate information. Best of luck, phiberoptics admin qis.md.us.dal.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message