Add the lines similar to the following to /etc/rc.conf.  Replace
"ne0" with the interface name of your ethernet card (seen in the
bootup/dmesg output, or ifconfig -a).  This also assumes your IP is
24.42.160.18 (i.e. @home's DNS is properly configured) - if not, put your
IP there instead.  This also assumes your gateway is 24.42.160.1 (@home
has followed that scheme in Ontario in the past, but yours might be
different - MAKE SURE YOU CHECK IT), if not - use the correct IP in
defaultroute.

hostname="cr281793-b.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com"
auto_ifconfig=NO
net_interfaces="ne0"
ifconfig_ne0="inet 24.42.160.18 netmask 255.255.255.128"
defaultroute="24.42.160.1"

Also add:
nameserver 24.2.9.33
nameserver 24.2.9.35
to /etc/resolv.conf.

If all these IP addresses are correct and your cable modem / ethernet card
are working properly than this should do the trick.  If not, try:
ping -n 24.42.160.1    - can you talk to your default gateway?

@Home usually reccomends using DHCP to automatically determine your IP and
gateway, but my experience has been that the @Home DHCP servers are
extremely unreliable.  They may have fixed the problem by now (I switched
to ADSL a year ago), but since your information isn't likely to change you
may be better off hard-coding it.

However, if @Home does ever change any of this information, your
connection will stop working possibly without notice (after using @home
for 3 years, they decided to change everyones IP in my area).  You can use
DHCP INSTEAD of hard-coding all the information if you like.  Setup
/etc/dhclient.conf with lines like:

send dhcp-client-identifier "cr281793-b"
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name, host-name,
   domain-name-servers;
require subnet-mask, routers;

And then put "dhclient=YES" into /etc/rc.conf.

Hope this helps,
	Rick

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Peter Mancuso wrote:

> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 13:49:30 -0400
> From: Peter Mancuso <unishell@hotmail.com>
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: cable modem networking setup
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have been trying to get my netbsd box up and running with cable modem. But
> I cant seem to do it. My NIC card seems to be up and running but I cant seem
> to set my configuration settings correctly. I am willing to pay 5$ canadian
> to anyone who can help me set up my network conf files....Im assuming these
> are hosts rc.conf and/or mygate/myname/defaultdomain. My name is cr281793-b
> and domain is wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx gate=same name
> servers= 24.2.9.33,24.2.9.35, subnetmask 255.255.255.128
>
> please....help me!!!!!...Im savy with linux so Im not a total newbie...but I
> am new to netbsd......
>
> thanks for your time
>
> Peter
>
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