Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, so I swapped out pump for dhclient, and I still get nothing! I've set the eth1 address to 192.168.100.5, and set the route up: route add -net 192.168.100.0 gw 192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth1 and still can't ping anything. Let's have

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-24 Thread Hewitt Tech
, 2003 10:13 PM Subject: Re: Connecting to Comcast In a message dated: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:13:29 EDT plussier said: I've tried using pump to get an address, and watched daemon.log and an ethereal trace, and both show a bootp request going out, but nothing ever comes back. Okay, so I swapped out

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:13:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've *finally* got a cable modem (after waiting about 7 years:) however, I can't seem to get Linux to connect. ! Oh, er, I mean, congratulations! [snip] I've tried using pump to get an address, and watched

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:42:09 -0400 Greg Bonnette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can connect to Comcast with Linux (or a Broadband router etc.), but I believe the initial connection requires a Windows PC in order to run the setup CD they supply you

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:03:40AM -0400, Chris Brenton wrote: The registration is tied to the MAC address of your external NIC, so if you ever swap Ethernet cards you have to re-register. As of when I left Comcast in March, this was not true. I had dealt with tech support and they told me

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread pll
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jerry == Jerry Feldman wrote: Jerry First, try to see if you can access your cable modem at Jerry 192.168.100.1. I found this IP on the web somewhere after googling around. The question I have is this, how can I access a network for which I have no route? IOW, I

RE: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Travis Roy
(I'm also *very* disappointed that there's no serial port on these modems, though, ironically, on my Digital Cable set-top box there is?! :) They don't want you to have to much control of your cable modem. For a while there was a way to configure it with SNMP and get it uncapped. They fixed

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
Remember you can ifconfig a single NIC with a secondary IP in when using linux/Solaris. This is kind neat since it allows you to easily run two 'networks' on the same media. rockhopper:/etc/rc3.d# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:20:8F:24:04 inet

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread pll
In a message dated: 23 Sep 2003 09:30:57 EDT Kevin D. Clark said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found this IP on the web somewhere after googling around. The question I have is this, how can I access a network for which I have no route? The question was mostly rhetorical. I was thinking

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found this IP on the web somewhere after googling around. The question I have is this, how can I access a network for which I have no route? # assumes eth0 is your external nic # 10.1.2.3 is arbitrary ifconfig eth0 10.1.2.3 route add 192.168.100.1 eth0

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread pll
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Andrew == Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: Andrew Remember you can ifconfig a single NIC with a secondary IP Andrew in when using linux/Solaris. This is kind neat since it Andrew allows you to easily run two 'networks' on the same media. Now *that* I hadn't tried or even

RE: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Travis Roy
: Re: Connecting to Comcast On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:03:40AM -0400, Chris Brenton wrote: The registration is tied to the MAC address of your external NIC, so if you ever swap Ethernet cards you have to re-register. As of when I left Comcast in March, this was not true. I had dealt

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Derek Doucette
Derek Martin said: As of when I left Comcast in March, this was not true. I had dealt with tech support and they told me they no longer do this. Is this like Verizon tech's telling you that they don't block port 80 religiously, yet you can run a web server on other non-standard ports? I

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:36:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, plussier == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: plussier The PC/Activity light is flashing an awful lot, but it plussier seems to do this even when the interface is down (I'm plussier assuming

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Tom Buskey
I hooked up to cable with Mediaone a few years ago. Never had a CD but I got hooked up on win98. I switched my nic later just the mac to another machine it works just fine. It's now comcast I still haven't gotten a CD but I have swapped modems. I run OpenBSD with dhclient and it works

RE: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread Travis Roy
I used to hear tons of DSL horror stories.. Those are mostly gone now, unless you're on the frindge of the service area things go very smoothly. My DSL (MV.com) install went easier then any of my cable installs. David Kramer has DSL and lost his accesss yesterday for about a day. Yah, I

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread David Roberts
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jerry Feldman stated in their Email: gaf From: Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] gaf To: GNHLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] gaf Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:02:11 -0400 gaf Subject: Re: Connecting to Comcast gaf gaf -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- gaf Hash: SHA1 gaf gaf On Tue, 23 Sep

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-23 Thread plussier
In a message dated: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:13:29 EDT plussier said: I've tried using pump to get an address, and watched daemon.log and an ethereal trace, and both show a bootp request going out, but nothing ever comes back. Okay, so I swapped out pump for dhclient, and I still get nothing! I've

Re: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-22 Thread plussier
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, plussier == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: plussier The PC/Activity light is flashing an awful lot, but it plussier seems to do this even when the interface is down (I'm plussier assuming this is lowlevel link-layer traffic). I've also noticed that the Send and Receive

RE: Connecting to Comcast

2003-09-22 Thread Greg Bonnette
You can connect to Comcast with Linux (or a Broadband router etc.), but I believe the initial connection requires a Windows PC in order to run the setup CD they supply you with. In my experiences, to activate your account, you need to provide your Comcast account number and some other number that