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| DATE | 2001-10-11 |
| FROM | Jon Bober
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] router/RCN issues
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My two roommates have macs and I am unable to get them to connect to the cable modem, also. No hostname was supplied, however, as the install-guy was never even aware that linux existed on my computer. I think that perhaps tomorrow I will pick up a second NIC for the computer that the connection is working on to see if that second NIC can connect.
Alternately, is there any support for usb cable modem support under linux? Anything that I have read on the issue seems to say that there is no hope at the moment.
jon bober.
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:01:08 -0400
Brendan Tween wrote:
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> Jon,
>
> Time warner uses the MAC address of the gateway device to authenticate -
> their dhcp servers won't answer any unknown device that requests an address.
> When I got the cable 'modem' from them, the woman wrote down the mac address
> - but the addresses of devices on the back end are irrelevant - I've set up
> a proxying router and attached numerous hosts on the inside - though without
> changing the gateway device (cable modem).
>
> brendan
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Bober [mailto:jwb235-at-nyu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:13 AM
> To: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> Subject: [hangout] router/RCN issues
>
>
>
> Hello all.
>
> Trying to set up a Coyote Linux router with RCN as the ISP. On my current
> PC, the setup works fine simply using DHCP - the guy from RCN set up the
> connection while I was away, (I left the computer in Windows for him) and
> when I booted Linux, it worked with no changes.
> The box I am using as a router cannot get an IP address, however. I do
> not think that there is a problem with the network - it seems to perhaps
> be that RCN uses the NIC Hardware Address for assigning IPs. Does anyone
> know if this is the case with RCN? That the NIC address is used for
> verification? I have not ever heard of a cable ISP doing this, but it
> seems to be the case.
>
> jon bober.
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