Re: Saint Louis area Broadband

["Bob T. Kat" <bobkat79@charter.net>]

When they hooked mine up a year or so ago I told them I had linux and
would set it up myself, the tech ran the cable to my cable modem, I
hooked my openbsd firewall up to it, fired up dhcp, and viola it just
worked, the tech was a little scared by the command line and wouldn't go
near it (the way I prefer it).  The thing is charter is even easier to
setup than att was, charter doesn’t require that host name be sent in
the dhcp request.  Also of note the last person to come out to my house
from charter to look at my low signal strengths knew linux, that was
pretty cool.  Bob T. Kat

just putting in my .0083 pounds 
-----Original Message-----
From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org
[mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org] On Behalf Of William Underwood
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:57 PM
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Subject: Re: Saint Louis area Broadband

KoReE wrote:
>On another note with this, I can say that my friend called *MANY* DSL
and
>cable providers today, and absolutely none were Linux-friendly.  In
fact,
>they weren't anything but Windows friendly.  They were even skeptical
of
>Macs.  More than one actually told her that Linux wouldn't work with
their
>system.
  Charter also does not support any form of OS other than Windows or
Mac.  
However, I used Solaris as my firewall for a little over a year, and am
now 
building my new Linux firewall.  Just because they won't support it, 
doesn't mean it won't work. :-)  If they say it *WILL NOT* work, I'd be 
hard pressed to believe them.  After all, they terminate to a device
with 
an ethernet port, and Linux, from what I've heard about it, does support

TCP/IP connections over ethernet media, right?

  Just make sure that there's a Winblows box around for the tech to get
his 
warm fuzzies off of, then as soon as he leaves, switch it over to the
Linux 
box.

>Koree
William

-- 
William Underwood
wllmundrwd@netscape.net



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