Re: [nottingham] ntl cable modem

From: Andy Brown (nlug@jester.nu)
Date: Wed 03 Oct 2001 - 18:21:03 BST


On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, RichardN wrote:

>Heya,
>
>On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, James Maitland Chapman wrote:
>
>> I have a debian machine set up to use as a gateway doing ip-masquerading, it
>> currently is only using my modem as I have been unable to get any sense out of
>> ntl in regard to the configuration of the ntl side network card.
>>
>> Does anyone have a similar configuration and could either provide me with, or
>> point me in the direction of the necessary settings?
>
>With the cable modems which come from ntl (mine here is a surfboard from
>motarola) the modem will just dhcp you a lease with your ip address, so
>you should be able to use something like dhcpc, dhclient, or pump.

I switched from pump to dhclient, because pump kept dying.
Everything else has been pretty painless though

-- 
Andy Brown

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