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> Hey Everyone,
>
> I'm looking for a little clairification here:
>
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>
> I beleive this isn't possible though this is hazy to me. The reason
> why I say it is hazy is that there are cablemodems out there that
> receive on cable but transmit back on a analog modem. Obviously, these
> two connections will have different IP addresses.
>
> These hybrid cable/analog systems are reported to WORK under linux though
> I dont' know quite why. The reason why I'm skeptical is that when a packet
> comes in on your cablemodem, the sending server is expecting ACKs from
> that same IP. Yet, on this setup, the ACKs come back from the analog modem
> with a different IP address. Why doesn't the remote server complain about
> this?
>
I'm not sure whether the assumption that the incoming and outgoing
interfaces will have different IP addresses is valid. I'm not totally sure
of the details, but here in New Zealand we have a service called StarNet,
Satellite download, modem upload. This works on linux, indeed we have
linux drivers for it, and I believe you only need to configure a single IP
in order for it to operate. Whether this is how your cable modem system
operates or not I don't know.
Richard
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