My local cable company (Service Electric, Allentown PA) is offering
cable modems in conjunction with Prolog (PennTeleData).
As there is no fibre where I am, I can only get cable return, where the
incoming is 500kbits/s on cable, and the outgoing uses your existing
modem. They use Zenith cable modems at the moment, which have no
on-board telephone connection, unlike the new DOCSIS types which have
both cable and dial-up in the same box, with just an Ethernet cable to
the PC. They will support the DOCSIS types at some point, but not in
the next few months.
They claim that the system needs Win 95. I want to use Linux, as the
machine I will connect is an ipmasq gateway for the rest of the house.
I use diald-0.16.5/pppd2.3.8 at the moment with Redhat 5.1 on this
machine.
Has anyone used diald to handle the phone connection in a situation like
this? There must also be some odd routing issues, as the Ethernet port
will be receive-only, and the modem will (presumably?) be transmit-only.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
Ian.
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