I've had no problems getting my RH6.1 box to work on M1's network. But,
as was said in previous messages, have a 'doze system up and running
(minimal at best - just to get the NIC info). I haven't required any M1
service in a long time, but my connection for the most part is rock
solid. I've been able to achieve a sustained 1.5 Mb/s download speed
very often.
When M1 installed my system, I had a minimal windows partition with the
NIC configured. All the M1 tech guy had to do was plug in the modem and
cable and I was up and running. A few hours later, I had linux up and
running. Then I gladly blew away the MS partition.
I've only had one service outage and that was when there was a M1
network overhaul which lasted several hours.
Good luck.
- Scott
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Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> 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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