From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 23 12:51:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15721 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:51:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053nb4.san.rr.com (dt053nb4.san.rr.com [204.210.34.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15716 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:51:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Received: from dal.net (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053nb4.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25955; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@dal.net) Message-ID: <35E0728C.83C041D5@dal.net> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 12:50:36 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dmb CC: Rick Knebel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable modems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dmb wrote: > > 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. Unless of course you need DHCP, in which case you can't do what you're talking about here. YOUR installation might be "quite simple" but not all of them are. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** When you don't know where you're going, every road will take you there. - Yiddish Proverb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message