Re: Cable Modems

[alibby@voicenet.com]

I've never done it personally, but I used to work for a
cable company with a significant deployment of cable modems
both single and bi-directional.  If you've got the bridge type, which 
is bi-directional, and connects to your system via ethernet, 
usually the only complexity is the dhcp configuration.  The modem
will boot itself from a node on the cable network.

If you've got a single direction cable modem, and still need
your telephone line for upstream, as far as I know, you're out 
of luck.  They need special software, on a per vendor basis (drivers
if you will) to interface with them.

my $0.02.

Andy

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:Hi,  has anyone tried to connect a cable modem to their Linux box
:successfully?
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