It was pretty easy. No changes except the username and password.
Oh and of course DNS. Took me a while to find out what the DNS servers
were since I dont use the ones assigned by DHCP.
Was tempted to ring their hell desk for about 1 sec and then thought
better of it.
How sensible of Bigpond to use the same authenitcation mech as the older
motorola network. Im shocked really.
cheers
Andrew
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:56:25PM +1100, Scott Ragen wrote:
> Andrew,
> Nothing that I would know of.
> All I did was setup my network, blah blah blah
> execute bpalogin and i was off.
> The best thing I found to do to make sure the network works, just type
> ftp update-server
> even before executing bpalogin
> if that connects your flying
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Andrew Best
> Sent: Monday, 26 February 2001 1:06
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] motorola cable to DOCSIS cable
>
>
> I have a gateway/firewall box that used to be on BPA using the old
> Motorola cable modem.
> Ive moved and got BPA reconnected at my new premises and its using the
> new Nortel DOCSIS modems (this is a good thing).
>
> I will be setting up my gateway tonight to use the cable again, is there
> anyone that has made this change over before?
>
> Judging from what ive seen I dont think I need to do anything different. I
> still need to run bpalogin to get going.
>
> Im not after a basics of getting cable going in *nix, Ive got that going
> its just I thought that Telstra new DOCSIS cable network was the same
> as Optus's in that I didnt need to actually login. This is what has
> me confused.
>
> TIA
>
> Andrew
> --
> Andrew Best
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