Connecting to Comcast

[Hewitt Tech]

I think you may find that if you had the "Basic" installation and you didn't
register your cable modem using the programs on the CD they left with you,
that you won't be able to get a DHCP served address. The way it works is
that you setup a proxy address for your computer and then using a web page
off a server at the proxy address, you register the cable modem. Normally
they do this with a Windows PC but you should be able to use a Linux system
to do the same thing. One problem you will run into is that I suspect very
few of their technical people will know how to direct you to perform the
registration unless you are using a Windows PC (which BTW, they require for
this step of the process of signing up). Once the cable modem is registered
on the network segment you are logged into, the software on the CD resets
the modem, clears the proxy address and you are good to go. At this point a
Linux box should work without problem. I'm using a Libranet (Debian) Linux
system attached to my LAN which in turn talks to Comcast through a LinkSys
wireless access point/firewall/router.

-Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <plussier at mindspring.com>
To: <gnhlug-discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: Connecting to Comcast



In a message dated: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:13:29 EDT
plussier said:

>I've tried using pump to get an address, and watched daemon.log and
>an ethereal trace, and both show a bootp request going out, but
>nothing ever comes back.

Okay, so I swapped out pump for dhclient, and I still get nothing!
I've set the eth1 address to 192.168.100.5, and set the route up:

    route add -net 192.168.100.0 gw 192.168.100.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev
eth1

and still can't ping anything.

I called comcast, and they're sending out a tech "with all the tools"
to "diagnose" the problem...

I'm wondering if might really be a modem problem?!
-- 

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