-ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am smoking crack... you are right it was Charter, no Cox. Duh. It was > the com21 when they first started one-way service in Hammond....we hopped > on pretty early. some of us used it for years and never got a bill from > charter... later i upgraded to two-way. it was still a com21 modem, not > sure if it was DOCSIS though.
yep. 'Charter Pipeline' at that time was run by a separate company that shared revenue with Charter the cable company. You didn't have a com21 DOCSIS modem. When HSA sunk(1), charter took it in-house and I setup the DOCSIS gear and pushed like hell to eradicate that COM21 junk. They shut down the last bit of one-way right after I left. > Ethereal decodes DOCSIS frames? Nice... my thinking was to find a PCI Cisco actually added this functionality. I had fun playing with that. > cable modem, and if someone had a linux driver for it perhaps it could > decode whatever was on the cable line into ethernet. But i never did find > such a beast, and never did learn enough about Charters network figure it > out, heh... Nah. wouldn't work. If you really want to figure out Charter's network in LA, just ask. I built the vast majority of it(2). It's a pretty standard Cisco DOCSIS setup. Nice gear though and a nice network actually. DHCP/DNS was/is handled by Sun E250's. Later they moved to Netra T1 Sun's but I'm quite sure that they haven't migrated any LA systems to those boxes. The COM21 stuff is gone. I setup one of this in AL but not here. Used Sun stuff for DHCP their as well but used ISC DHCPD instead of Cisco stuff, of course. (1) Of course they sunk. Your (lack of) billing situation was hardly unique. Not that the cable company side is a whole lot better.... (2) still have all the cisco configs on this here laptop. I wrote them a nice monitoring and provisioning setup that used Apache+PHP+Perl+mysql. It was quite fun for a little while. If you're really curious, email me offline. None of this is proprietary and I shared info in the past while I was there with customers who asked. -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...and one script to rule them all."
