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Re: [TCLUG:13480] MediaOne 2 way cable How-To



Hrm....According to the Net HOWTO (or some other one) that is not the
case....

I remember this from setting up my firewall...I suppose I'll have to look it
up now..

How confusing..
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>From: Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>
>To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>Subject: Re: [TCLUG:13480] MediaOne 2 way cable How-To
>Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2000, 9:20 AM
>

>On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Brian J. Ackermann wrote:
>> My experience with the techs was that they were much more open to the idea. 
>> At least on my end of things, DHCP is used, and the MAC of the NIC used
>> during the install is required.  
>> 
>> I know that the salespeople also said one needs to have a machine at least a
>> 150MHz pentium, and at least 32 meg of RAM.  I argued for a while about
>> this, but they didn't change their story.  
>> 
>> I ended up having them come out, install the modem in a windows box that had
>> a NIC in it already(I recommend when choosing one of your own NIC's that you
>> find the one with the lowest MAC addy possible, so that it comes up as eth0
>> under linux.)  Once they had left, I yanked the NIC from the windows box,
>> and dropped it into a 486/66 with 24M RAM, running Coyote.  Everything works
>> fine...
>
>Just a note: the order of network cards (eth0..n) is determined by bus
>order, not by the order of MAC addresses. For example, from one of my
>machines:
>
>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:95:EC:4B:CF  
>eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:55:3C:6E  
>eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:09:ED:C2:BD  
>
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>Nate Carlson <carlson@real-time.com>    | Phone : (612)943-8700
>http://www.real-time.com                | Fax   : (612)943-8500
>
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