On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 03:07:30PM +0000, oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:
> 
> But first I must decide upon an ISP, DSL or cable modem. 
> And none of the providers say anything about connecting 
> to Unix. Does anyone have happy/unhappy experiences 
> specific to NetBSD with DSL or cable modem?
> 

I use AT&T@Home cable service. I have 3 IP addresses, one each for 
Win2K PCs and one for my NetBSD box. All 3 machines plug into a hub
and the hub plugs into the cable modem. The NetBSD is configured as
it would be for any lan.

$ ifconfig de0
de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:00:f8:02:8d:54
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
        status: active
        inet 24.10.20.35 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 24.255.255.255
        inet alias 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::200:f8ff:fe02:8d54%de0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

As you can see, I also have an alias. The Win2K machines are also on the
192.168.1.x network so I can get fast transfers without having to deal
with funky routing! It even works with a broken netmask which I need
to fix!

Regards
Nigel



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