[Gllug] Blueyonder Telewest cable broadband

[Matthew King]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:31, Richenberg, Alan wrote:
> I have bought a new Elinux machine from Evesham with Mandrake 9.1
> installed. This is for home use on a standalone basis. The man from
> Telewest is due to come soon to give me cable broadband. I've asked
> for the network card option (thanks for the advice Xander). As a
> novice I'd be grateful for advice on what, if anything, I need to do
> pre-installation (I won't get any help from Telewest man on Linux) and
> what the best security options are once the connection is up.

My telewest modem uses a bog-standard dhcp setup (well from the client
point of view it's bog-standard)

If Mandrake is as user friendly as I'm led to believe it is, the default
settings will get you online.

As for security, you've already protected yourself against most things
by using Linux but as for the rest, someone else on this list, perhaps
someone who actually uses Mandrake, could help you better.

Matthew

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