ATT Cable modems, OT: Looking for a job

[Edward Glowacki]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, basher584 wrote:
> I have just moved to the East Lansing area (from Saline/Ann Arbor) and
> found out that I can get ATT's cablemodem service.  Are there any
> hardware/software issues with the cablemodem service and Linux?  Are

You should be able to just plug it in and go.  @home blocks some windows
networking ports, but for the most part I think everything works OK.  I'm
using METS, which is a very similar service that TCI started here locally
in East Lansing before @home was created, but it costs a bit more (though
I do get a direct route to MSU which is what I mostly need anyways).

> there any issues with ATT & Linux?  (About a year ago when WLUG people
> were getting the one-way MediaOne RoadRunner service, media one refused
> to install it on anything other than windows, which caused a lot of
> people to do the old HD switch 'aroo.  (Kinda understandable, since they
> were requiring the technicians that came to your house to install a PCI
> card).  Recently, they have been changing over to the dual way broadband
> solution that uses a cable modem that uses ethernet, so they just
> required you to have a network card and let you deal with the
> configuration if you wanted to.) (And removed any requirements on OS's..
> you just needed a TCP/IP stack.) What type of hardware/cable modem do
> they use?

My cable modem is a LanCity.  It takes power, cable in, 10baseT ethernet
out.  I have it plugged into a hub, and my PC(s) into the hub, and it all
works great with DHCP (and you get the same address every time,
usually...).  Nothing special needed.


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Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
Network Services		
Michigan State University