In message <199806060825.BAA24628@concord.televar.com>, Greg Evans writes:
>On 6/5/98 7:14 PM, Dan McMahill was rumored to have said.....
>
>>In message <199806052259.PAA20277@concord.televar.com>, Greg Evans writes:
>>>Has anyone tried to use a cable modem with NetBSD?  If so, what was your 
>>>experience?
>>>
>>
>>Using a Mediaone cable modem right now under NetBSD-1.3/mac68k.  Works great.
>>--Dan
>>
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>
>Dan, thanks for the information.  The person that I am inquiring for 
>thinks this sounds like a really good idea...What all is involved in the 
>setup on the MacOS side?? can it be that hard?  He already has a PPC Mac 
>running through the cable modem, and I believe he is using home.com for 
>his provider (which I believe is media one).  If you could send me the 
>instructions, I would be grateful..he does have a static IP
>
ok, I was under the impression that this was a new cable modem.  I don't
care at all about the MacOs setup, but the cable installers do which is
why I mentioned it.  Is your friend wanting to use the PPC mac and the
NetBSD mac at the same time with the cable modem?  If so he needs 2 ethernet
cards in one machine and that machine needs to act as a gateway for the other.

I think that the mediaone system actually looks at the hardware address
of the ethernet card, but maybe thats only for systems with dynamic IP's
(comments from anyone who really knows ?).

To make it all go, checkout the how-to's at
http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/howto/index.html

of particular relavence are:

How to setup networking
How to setup a private LAN
How to setup IP-NAT

and also
http://www.macbsd.com/macbsd/howto/notes/ipnat-NOTES


Is the IP address truely static?  (Mine hasn't changed, but MediaOne
setup MacOs to use DHCP so they can make it dynamic if they want).
You can see by looking under the OpenTransport control panel.

--Dan