On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:58:18 -0700
Derrick Ryalls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To make life easy, I had a windows box laying around for the technician
> to verify a live line with. Once it was live and he was gone, I
> switched to using a BSD router on the connection.
That's what I do. If I eve
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:33:43AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings fellow B.S.D. enthusiasts. Recently, I requested installation
> of a television cable at my home in Sacramento, California. The cable
> operator is Comcast. I requested connection of the television cable to my
> comp
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:33:43 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings fellow B.S.D. enthusiasts. Recently, I requested installation
> of a television cable at my home in Sacramento, California. The cable
> operator is Comcast. I requested connection of the television cable to my
> computer,
>To make life easy, I had a windows box laying around for the technician
>to verify a live line with. Once it was live and he was gone, I
>switched to using a BSD router on the connection.
I did the same here. Although to be honest, nothing the tech did here
should have made any difference whats
I am using openbsd on comcast. Like some other, i too had a windows box ready for the
technician,with a nic already there, once he was able to get a live connection and
left i just switched to my openbsd/pf router. There is some stuff you need to do, such
as punching a hole through your filter t
> Greetings fellow B.S.D. enthusiasts. Recently, I requested
> installation
> of a television cable at my home in Sacramento, California.
> The cable operator is Comcast. I requested connection of the
> television cable to my computer, which is a service that the
> operator advertises profu
Greetings fellow B.S.D. enthusiasts. Recently, I requested installation
of a television cable at my home in Sacramento, California. The cable
operator is Comcast. I requested connection of the television cable to my
computer, which is a service that the operator advertises profusely. The
telep
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings fellow B.S.D. enthusiasts. Recently, I requested installation
of a television cable at my home in Sacramento, California. The cable
operator is Comcast. I requested connection of the television cable to my
computer, which is a service that the operator adverti
> computer saw the cable network, but the cable refused to accept a logon
> request from the computer. The technician said that he believed that
> neither B.S.D. nor any other Unix, nor any Microsoft product that could be
> programmed to act as a server was acceptable. Has any other person had
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