On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:22, you wrote: > Sluggers, > > Just need some advice and opinions on a little job I've been offered. > > Question 1. Is it possible to connect to Telstra Cable from Linux? I'm > not familiar with Telstra cable, I assume that there is some sort of > cable modem > that handles that side of it and I just get an ethernet connection? Nope? > harder than that, some sort of card has to go in the PC along with some > software? Heard something about a .exe that is used to initiate the > modem, is there an equivelent for Linux? Or is this just a monitoring > toy? Also what > about IP address? Is that a DHCP thing from Telstra? > Haven't done it with cable, but iI have noticed references to Telstra on the list so I suggest you look at a Linux firewall/gateway distro such as IPCop. ( www.ipcop.org )
I set it up for a dialup connection to serve a RedHat box and a win98 box, it was amazingly painless. just my tuppence worth /\/\ick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
