[Gllug] ntl cable modem

[Paul Mansfield]

Michael,

I use the NTL Cable modem service.
To answer your questions, just make sure you get a linux supported network
card (hundreds to choose from). I use dhcpcd to get my IP address from them.
dhcpcd -h username eth1, where username is you NTL username as you setup
with the 98 setup. Change eth1 to whichever network card you are using to
connect to your cable modem. I think the reregistering with NTL is no longer
required (I didn't have to).

Had two outages in a year, both connected with network "upgrades".

Good luck

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of michael norman
Sent: 03 October 2002 19:39
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] ntl cable modem


Hi all

Tomorrow week i'm having ntl home broadband installed.  I intend to let them
set it up in w98 and then set it up from Linux (SuSE8.0 but I hope 8.1 by
then).

I gather from some googling (the rep I asked about how it connects said it
just connects to your pc) that ntl will bring a device that connects via
usb.
Some more googling about cable modems in Linux suggests that I have to
install an ethernet card, connect the modem to that using dhcp and then tell
ntl that I need to register its mac address.

So my questions are :

Anybody using this service with linux, preferably SuSE ?

Can you confirm my understanding as above ?

Is ther a recommende ethernet card ?

Are ther any other issues I should be aware of ?

How good is the service.

I'll be very grateful for any help with this

TIA

Mike

--
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug





-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug