[TriLUG] replacing a hard drive

[Stephen Schaefer]

I should add that, following my own advice, I haven't
talked to RR support in over a year, and that outagas
have been rare.

    - Stephen

--- Stephen Schaefer <stephen_schaefer27517 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I self-installed about three years ago, when they
> gave
> me a surfboard cable "modem".  I know I didn't use
> any
> windows software, because I shred any of those
> satanic
> bits that come into my house.  Seriously, the only
> M$
> I've got is DOS 3.1 on a 80286, no network card. 
> From
> my experience, the cable modem acts as an almost
> transparent bridge, so all your Linux box needs is a
> working DHCP client daemon.  I say "almost" because
> it
> consumes one time-to-live hop on outgoing packets.
> 
> If you too have a surfboard, then for fun and
> giggles:
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.100.10 up
> 
> Then point your web browser at 192.168.100.1.  I've
> looked, but I've never, ever touched anything on the
> surfboard.  The RR support I've talked to are Linux
> hostile, and it seems they'd love nothing better
> than
> to void my contract.  I've learned that when things
> go
> wrong, the only thing I can do is turn the cable
> modem
> off (unplug from wall power) and turn it back on. 
> The
> other option is to wait, or start paying $256 a
> month
> for business service.  Eventually your problem
> (which
> is not your problem, but RR's) will get fixed
> because
> their Microsoft clients will complain.  Calling them
> does nothing but put me in danger of a stroke. 
> Unfortunately, they're also the fastest connection I
> can get.
> 
>     - Stephen
> 
> --- Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> wrote:
> > when i 'self-installed' RR a year or two ago, i
> seem
> > to recall that i had
> > to install a win32 app on my windows box to
> > initialize the cable modem or
> > something to that effect.  i think it had some
> sort
> > of PPPoE client to
> > communicate with the central office so that it
> could
> > "authorize" the mac
> > address of the cable modem and grant it access. 
> > once that step was
> > complete, however, the app could be uninstalled
> and
> > never used again, and
> > the cable modem acted as a dhcp server and handed
> > out an address to the
> > first nic that requested it,
> > win/lin/mac/bsd/whatever.
> > 
> > jason
> > 
> > > Unless this is a new Road Runner policy, I think
> > you have been
> > > mis-informed.  If you use Linux, you have to do
> > the "self-install".
> > > Basically you have to plug your Cable Modem
> > network cable into your own
> > > box.... not a big deal.
> > >
> > > Jon Carnes
> > > ===
> > > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 11:12, Alan Ellis wrote:
> > >> I am setting up this machine so I can work from
> > home using RoadRunner,
> > >> and now I find out that they will not give me
> the
> > service with Linux
> > >> OS unless I pay "business class."  Therefore I
> > need dual boot.
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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> > Cerient Technologies
> > jason at cerient.net
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