cable/dsl

[Ben Webb]

Right now, even though it's morally incorrect, I'm using Roadrunner.  
Cable modems accept the cable on one side and cat5 ethernet on the other.  Result?  Any supported 
NIC will work for you (I got my setup for free, and they supplied an NE2000 clone card that is 
working fine for me).  I had to set up dhclient, but that was also a nonissue.  As far as the 
bandwidth goes I'm loving it, but I would recomend that if you're like me and don't have a static 
IP, turn off inetd and httpd unless you are using them (no sense exposing listening ports if they 
aren't needed - people do scan for them).

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Webmaster" <webmaster at nosoup4you.net>
Reply-To: kclug at kclug.org

>Anyone know how hard it is to setup an @home cable modem or SW Bell DSL in
linux?  I can't deside which to get.  I heard that SW Bell uses USB
networking, and that wouldn't work too well with linux.