Subject: Re: Lan City Cable Modems?
From: Robin Colgrove (robin@louis.bidmc.harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 14:44:23 MST
I just mailed my old Lan City cable modem back to MediaOne after they sent
the snazzy new Toshiba DOCSIS cable modem out in the mail. I had no trouble
running the old modem under linux, though. When I first tried networking
over cable modem, I was running a standard install of Linux lite off a zip
disk without X-Windows. As root, I just typed dhcpcd at the prompt and we
were off to the races. It picked up an IP address in a couple of seconds.
Actually, now I remember I had to get a more recent version of dhcpcd to
make this work but this shouldn't be an issue if you are using fixed
addresses. Just for fun, I did once configure the network using as fixed
addresses the addresses that had been picked up by dhcpcd before. That
worked fine, too. I had heard that that (using fixed addressing when the
ISP was using DHCP) was a bad idea, so I switched back to dhcpcd. Anyway,
that would suggest that there are no deep conflicts between Lan City modems
and linuxppc.
robin colgrove
Neil Jolly wrote:
> Is anyone aware of any issues with the old Lan City personal cable
> modems, and linux? I'm trying to help out a friend in a rural area get
> his cable modem service operating with linux, but I've had no success to
> date. The cable company is using static addresses not dhcp. After
> setting up the address for the card, the gateway required (as defined by
> the cable company), and the necessary routes, I could see the nameserver
> arp requests from the cable company's namserver (using tcpdump -i eth1),
> but I cannot ping the gateway or the nameservers. I can however ping the
> eth1 address ok. I tested the modem from the macos, and on a windows
> notebook to be sure, and the cables and modem are ok. Any suggestions
> anyone?
>
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