Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:11:14PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Does anyone have RH7.3 (or 7.2, doesn't matter) running with ATT Broadband (using a LinkSys BEFCMU10 Cable Modem) ? Right now I have this thing connected to my Win2000 machine, but I'd like to connect it to my Linux box, and set it up as a firewall. However, I seem to recall during the installation on Windows, it asked for my account and registration to install and work. How does this work on Linux? Do I just set eth0 to DHCP and assume it'll work when I boot the system up? Any caveats I need to be aware of? I'm currently connected up with RedHat 7.3 on my firewall. But I'm using a Toshiba PCX1100U cable modem. All I had to do is give the installer the MAC address of my ethernet card and the MAC address of my cable modem. When he arrived to install it and the digital cable TV converter, he looked at my systems and asked what is it running, Linux? When I said yes, he said I don't think we support Linux. I told him, That's right, you just support providing me with a broadband interface. I support Linux. I gave him the numbers and he called them in. He needed an account name, but that was only for the E-Mail address, it had nothing to do with getting the broadband interface to work. When he said it was ready, I ifup'ed the interface and a couple seconds later was pleased to see obtaining information for eth0 followed by [OK]. He was impressed (and surprised, I think he thought it would be trouble and it was a peice of cake). This is down in Atlanta Georgia, formery Media One, formerly Wometco, formerly Gwinnett Cable. You're milage may vary in your location. :-/ -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.. 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com . . .. Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. Mike -- Michael H. Warfield| (770) 985-6132 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471| possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3
Michael H. Warfield wrote: When he said it was ready, I ifup'ed the interface and a couple seconds later was pleased to see obtaining information for eth0 followed by [OK]. He was impressed (and surprised, I think he thought it would be trouble and it was a peice of cake). Am I correct in assuming that all you did was set eth0 to use DHCP then, no other configs anywhere to comply with their stupid network crap? This is down in Atlanta Georgia, formery Media One, formerly Wometco, formerly Gwinnett Cable. You're milage may vary in your location. :-/ Can the list be any longer? At least here it's just TCI, then ATT... -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.. 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com . . .. Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
RE: ATT Broadband on RH7.3
I also had no problems with my setup apart from the we don't support Linux comment. Simply ifup'd through my Linksys cable router set as a DHCP server and pulling DHCP from comcast@home (not quite the same company, but I just switched from ATT to Comcast when they bought out my area). Had everything running within seconds of the tech finishing his job. Shaun Riverview, MI -Original Message- From: Michael H. Warfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3 On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:11:14PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Does anyone have RH7.3 (or 7.2, doesn't matter) running with ATT Broadband (using a LinkSys BEFCMU10 Cable Modem) ? Right now I have this thing connected to my Win2000 machine, but I'd like to connect it to my Linux box, and set it up as a firewall. However, I seem to recall during the installation on Windows, it asked for my account and registration to install and work. How does this work on Linux? Do I just set eth0 to DHCP and assume it'll work when I boot the system up? Any caveats I need to be aware of? I'm currently connected up with RedHat 7.3 on my firewall. But I'm using a Toshiba PCX1100U cable modem. All I had to do is give the installer the MAC address of my ethernet card and the MAC address of my cable modem. When he arrived to install it and the digital cable TV converter, he looked at my systems and asked what is it running, Linux? When I said yes, he said I don't think we support Linux. I told him, That's right, you just support providing me with a broadband interface. I support Linux. I gave him the numbers and he called them in. He needed an account name, but that was only for the E-Mail address, it had nothing to do with getting the broadband interface to work. When he said it was ready, I ifup'ed the interface and a couple seconds later was pleased to see obtaining information for eth0 followed by [OK]. He was impressed (and surprised, I think he thought it would be trouble and it was a peice of cake). This is down in Atlanta Georgia, formery Media One, formerly Wometco, formerly Gwinnett Cable. You're milage may vary in your location. :-/ -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.. 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com . . .. Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. Mike -- Michael H. Warfield| (770) 985-6132 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471| possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Does anyone have RH7.3 (or 7.2, doesn't matter) running with ATT Broadband (using a LinkSys BEFCMU10 Cable Modem) ? Right now I have this thing connected to my Win2000 machine, but I'd like to connect it to my Linux box, and set it up as a firewall. However, I seem to recall during the installation on Windows, it asked for my account and registration to install and work. How does this work on Linux? Do I just set eth0 to DHCP and assume it'll work when I boot the system up? Any caveats I need to be aware of? My experience with ATTBI in Seattle was much more favorable than my experience last year with ATT @Home in mid-Illinois. They seem to have finally got their sh*t together in several ways. Most importantly, there were no MAC address gymnastics; what they register now is the _modem_, not my ethernet card. Doesn't matter what card I plug into the modem. I ran through their setup screen on a Win98 laptop, then plugged in my Linux gateway and it took a DHCP address immediately (used dhcpcd; pump didn't seem to work). Easiest broadband setup I've done. Their modem is hardcoded to connect to one specific website, and that's the only site it can reach until you're authenticated. I didn't try to do this step with a Linux browser, but I bet it would work ... give it a try. You can get this address by sniffing your traffic while running the Windows setup program, but it might be easier to just call support and tell them you had trouble with the Windows authentication (which was true in my case); they'll then give you the appropriate web address to try, and you can enter your account number and whatnot there. Speed, however, is very disappointing so far, compared to the Earthlink DSL link I lost when I moved. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPvT879BpdPKTBGtEQKuiwCgrSvdhxCFM+QpqSgLnuImfYhuOiEAnRrG k9gC3ax9ajfFES4OuDhX41+W =C4L0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3
David Talkington wrote: Speed, however, is very disappointing so far, compared to the Earthlink DSL link I lost when I moved. Downlink I don't have a problem with, it's the uplink that really pisses me off: 128Kbit up, 1.5Mbit down. I should've stuck with DST. Maybe I'll get it back, and figure out a way to traffic shape myself to hell and back (sending upstream data through one, and downstream through the other) -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.. 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com . . .. Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 02:27:51PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Michael H. Warfield wrote: When he said it was ready, I ifup'ed the interface and a couple seconds later was pleased to see obtaining information for eth0 followed by [OK]. He was impressed (and surprised, I think he thought it would be trouble and it was a peice of cake). Am I correct in assuming that all you did was set eth0 to use DHCP then, no other configs anywhere to comply with their stupid network crap? Correct. Originally, this was a RedHat 6.2 system and it was a bit more complicated, mostly because the default dhcp client was pump. That cause more problems than anything else, mostly with renewing links. Now I'm on RedHat 7.3 and the default is dhcpcd and it works like a charm. Just specify dhcp as the boot protocol and a way you go. OH! One other gotcha, if you are like me with other interfaces. You have to set PEERDNS=no if you don't want it to screw with your DNS setup... If all you have is the broadband (I also have 4 ISDN BRI's which route static IP addresses at a lower speed) then you don't need that. Unfortunately, I didn't WANT to use their DNS servers or search attbi.com for my domain resolutions... :-) This is down in Atlanta Georgia, formery Media One, formerly Wometco, formerly Gwinnett Cable. You're milage may vary in your location. :-/ Can the list be any longer? At least here it's just TCI, then ATT... ATT itself varies depending upon what infrastructure they have purchased. ATT down here may be very different from ATT somewhere else. The list may be short, but the gotcha may surprise you. -- W | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. + Ashley M. Kirchner mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / WebSmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.. 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com . . .. Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. Mike -- Michael H. Warfield| (770) 985-6132 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471| possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael H. Warfield wrote: OH! One other gotcha, if you are like me with other interfaces. You have to set PEERDNS=no if you don't want it to screw with your DNS setup... If all you have is the broadband (I also have 4 ISDN BRI's which route static IP addresses at a lower speed) then you don't need that. Unfortunately, I didn't WANT to use their DNS servers or search attbi.com for my domain resolutions... :-) I feel the same way, but I've been borking with DHCPCDARGS in the network scripts ... figures there'd be an easier way. Thanks for the tip. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPwVNb9BpdPKTBGtEQKrHQCeNacDiKSueYOOxT8DwtqpqVpFdFkAn1Y8 RO6rsNaGG6Z6PriCbLvgTrft =Ft4d -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
