[olug] Cox at home

[Eric Penne]

My cable modem from RoadRunner/Time Warner in Lincoln is the same as on
the computers2go website.  It works great for me.  I just use the RJ-45
connector into my floppy firewall/DHCP server/router and out to my LAN.

I thought I was having some issues with linux and DHCP through the
cable modem, since my firewall still needs to use DHCP to get its IP.
It turned out that the cable modem locks on to the MAC address of the
card that is using it.  It won't let another card work with it until
the you shut the cable modem down for a few minutes and restart it. 
Then it locks on to the first card that it connects to.  It only took
me a week or two to figure this out, but it wasn't a linux problem.

Eric

--- Jon <thechunk at thechunk.dhs.org> wrote:
> All cablemodems I have seen are external routers.  They all use
> standard 10mb ethernet to connect to they home network.  I paid 135
> for mine from cox ( in payments of 45 a month for three months).
> don't know if your eligible for this offer or not.  Been very
> reliable.  
> 
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:45:00AM -0500, quinn at kalteisen.com wrote:
> > I'm in Gretna and we are just getting COX now, so I'm looking at
> COX at home. 
> > They told me I have the choice of using a cable modem from them or
> getting
> > my own.  How good are the ones they offer and how well do they work
> with
> > Linux?	I was just at the computer2go website and saw they have a
> cable
> > modem for $180 that connect to the PC via ethernet, so that would
> be an
> > easy install.
> > 
> > I'm on RedHat 7.1
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Quinn
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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