Len Lawrence wrote:
I had the same sort of arguement with CenturyTel. My solution was to buy a small D-Link DI-604 router (about $20). The router fights the battle with their modem, DHCP/DNS servers, etc. (It even includes its own littlde firewall, so now, I get an extra Linux box for FREE. )Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under DHCP.
Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only be initialized by proprietary software?
I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of
information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could
badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The
dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all
the relevant parameters.
I plug all my Linux machines, Windows machines (via another little router) and security cameras into the D-Link router. Reboot everything, and BANG! It all works. No sweat. No tears.
Harv / AI9NL
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