Re: linux and bigpond cable

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From: Taso Hatzi
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:00

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Pete Johnson wrote:
> 
> what is the easiest way to connect to the internet via Bigpond cable
> with Linux?
> 

If the one-and-only Bigpond cable installation I have seen is typical,
all you need do is connect the Ethernet card in your Linux box to the
cable modem with the UTP cable (both supplied by Bigpond). There is a
DHCP
server at Bigpond central so configure the Linux box to get an IP number
via DHCP. I have never figured out whether Linux can be programmed with
the IPs of DNs servers via DHCP, so you may have to do these by hand.

Also, you have to ring up Bigpond and ask for the cable modem to be
'activated'.

I believe the DHCP server at Bigpond central will hand out up to 4(?) IP
numbers through one cable modem, which means you can connect the cable
modem to a hub & plug several computers into that. The hardest part is
figuring out how to pay for it at $60 per month + $0.35 per MB over what
you get for 'free'.

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Date: 1999/01/21
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