I had MediaNone install a cable modem less than a month ago here in Atlanta.
They brought out a 3Com cable modem, wired to emulate a hub (so it uses
direct cable).
The only drawback is, they require a Winblows box with a single NIC be
available for the install or they won't install the service.
Once you install Linux on the box (with the registered NIC) the standard
dhcpcd will work just fine and if it's a recent enough version it will
generate the resolv.conf file for you.
-robert
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From: ">owner-ale@ale.org [mailto:">owner-ale@ale.org]On Behalf Of Grant
Taylor
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 6:46 PM
To: ">ale@ale.org
Subject: [ale] Details of Mediaone in Atlanta as compared to Boston
Hi all. I'm looking for a little information on using Linux with
Mediaone's cable modems in the Atlanta area. I first asked this in
atl.general, and was pointed here...
I currently use M1 up in Boston, and I'd like to know if the network
is basically the same there in Atlanta. I intend to set my mother up
with a Linux PC and a cable modem.
The deal here is:
- LANCity cable modems, which appear as a standard Ethernet bridge
from the computer end. A few areas here are switching to DOCSIS
modems, which do frequency hopping and other interesting tricks but
are effectively the same from a customer standpoint.
- Ordinary DHCP for a preregisted MAC address. No funky login
protocols or anything, just vanilla DHCP. The Yochi dhcpcd works,
as does dhclient.
- "Static" DNS entries - either anything.ne.mediaone.net or a MAC
address-derived fixed name. The names are rearranged on renumber
so that foobar.ne.mediaone.net always points to the same machine.
I downloaded the atl.mediaone.net zone file and all the names
appear to be clientXXXYYY where XXX.YYY is half the IP address. If
this is all you get, I'll need to whip up a dynamic nameservice
thing of some sort.
- No Linux support, but no active opposition either: so long as I'm
there to do the equivalent operations to what the installer would
be doing to winipcfg, we'll all be happy. Sort of a don't ask
don't tell policy...
- A cable modem administrative network built on the 10/8 unroutable
network. The local customer subnet, with a 10 in the first octet,
contains all that subnet's cable modems at unrelated host
addresses. The cable modems speak SNMP, and one can monitor signal
level, traffic, etc.
- Reasonably good network connectivity including direct peering with
various interesting networks around town. Up here this includes
MIT, Harvard, and assorted regional backbones (but, inexplicably,
not the NEARNet/BBN/GTEi network, which was historically the best
one with all the schools and any tech businesses).
So does any of this differ from the Atlanta network?
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Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picantecom - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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