Re: [PLUG] Cable Modem Woes

[Jim Foster <jif@computer.org>]

Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a LinkSys (or whatever) switch/router and 
be done with it?


At 12:46 PM 3/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> I know we have gone over the cable modem issue ad.nausium, but I need someone
> to point me to a GOOD how-to for cable modem and conection sharing (ie:
> firewall/router) for SuSE 7.3. I connected the cable modem to my primary
> workstation instead of having a machine dedicated to the task. The dedicated
> box is running eSmith server and does an excellent job and was easy to
> configure. However, I cannot even get the DHCP to work on the second card in
> my primary box. I would have thought SuSE7.3 would handle this better, but it
> doesn't. Can anyone point me to something definitive on getting this to work?
> Once I have the primary box connect directly to the cable modem, then i'll
> worry about routing the rest of the network through it.

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