> Arupda, check your cable channel, i mean the one in Sounds good, will definitely hop onto this bandwagon the moment it rolls out.
About the cable modem question, I've been using cable out here for a long while now. The way my modem (and the setup out here) works, is that if you want to be generic in terms of your connection setup, you need to connect a nic or a firewall to the modem using a stancard network cable, and have the nic / firewall send a dhcp request with a hostname - this hostname is provided by your ISP, looks like a serial number. On linux (this is what I mean by a nic connection), dhcpcd has a flag to set the requesting hostname (what this amounts to is that the dhcp server on the other end needs this hostname to authenticate you). If you have a hardware firewall, the firewall setup software should have an option of setting the dhcp hostname (normally in the global ip acquisition section). Pretty painless once you have the hostname business sorted out. Firewall acquires an IP from the modem, then you plug in your other boxen to the lan, and surf away. If you use USB to connect the modem, I have no clue what you need to do. Atleast out here, all modems I have dealt with have USB/Lan connections - I always use the lan. Arup __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
