Bob George <mailings02@ttlexceeded.com> writes:
When the charter tech first showed up at the house (Grafton), I had NO computers, nor my cable modem out of boxes. He "set it up" and left. I had to call someone out when I had the teledyne cable modem unpacked, but he used his laptop for everything. After that, my Linux box (debian sarge/testing) came up just fine.
It was pretty amusing when the RCN guys came to install my cable line. One of them seemed to have some knowledge about Linux, even! The laptop I had for testing the line was a old powerbook running Debian, in console mode no less. The guy tried to run some kind of netconfig utility, which of course wasn't there, but he did check the hardware address with ifconfig and test the connection with ping. I used to have speakeasy, and I really miss having several static ips, and quality tech support. (also, the connection was rock solid for a year). I was pretty apprehensive about moving to a cable provider (my CO is crippled), but I went with RCN. Much to my surprise, the connection has been up for some 6 months without a single (known) outage. They let you pay them for a static IP address even. (and, when you pay for a static IP they disable all inbound/outbound port filtering) -- Josh Huber