i can confirm that i have had a linux box connected to both the cable modem and a router attached to the modem. i haven't faced any problems. in both cases dhcp worked.
aravind. On 7/1/05, Randolph Baden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I figure some people on here must have used Comcast at some point, so > I figure I should ask you all for confirmation about what those jerks > tried to tell me today. > > We finally had our service working after about a week of down time, > but it recently cut out, and Comcast is claiming that it's because > they don't support Linux. If you ask me this sounds like complete BS. > They said that some of our packets were considered invalid or > something so we were "wallblocked" or something similarly nonsensical. > > Since there's no reason that a packet coming from a Linux machine > (especially after going through the router) should be any different > than a packet coming from any other machine, I wanted to know if > anyone else has ever had this problem with Comcast, or else, if some > people have explicitly not had this problem with Comcast and instead > we found yet another incompetent Customer Service rep.
