discuss: Cable Modem HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Cable Modem HOWTO
From:
Howard Shane ####@####.####
Date:
1 Jul 2004 14:33:06 -0000
Message-Id: <20040701143315.GA5762@K7.austin.rr.com>
On 06/30/04 16:14:48, Rob McGee wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:01:50AM -0500, Howard Shane wrote:
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Motorola-Surfboard-Modem/index.html
>
> Howard,
>
> [feebback on your HOWTO]
> I would have sent this to you offlist, but your ISP, being far too
> aggressive in their spam blocking, will not accept mail from my mail
> server, apparently[1] because someone in a nearby unrelated netblock
> might have sent spam once.
>
> Anyway, there's a minor error on this page:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Motorola-Surfboard-Modem/prerequisites.html
> where you refer to /dev/lo and /dev/eth0. Interfaces are not device
Yes, you're right, silly of me.
> Also on usb.html, you suggest for Slackware putting a dhclient
> command
> in rc.local. Indeed this will work, but it is a kludge. "netconfig"
> sets
> up Ethernet interfaces in Slackware; in 9.1 and later releases these
> settings are controlled in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf.
I'll modify that section; I haven't used Slackware in quite a while.
Thanks for the update.
> using ifup and ifdown commands. Those are not provided in all
> distros.
> [/feedback]
Thanks, I would guess people would use ifconfig.
As for the other suggestions, I guess whatever the group consensus is.
I welcome Jess' help too.
hs
