On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:21:14 EDT "Calvin Vette (IT- Borders Online)" writes
> It was pretty straight forward. I called the cable company (Mediaone), let
> them run the initial wiring install and modem check, asked them to leave the
> Ethernet card and Win95 software and instructions in the box, then plugged
> the modem into my Ethernet card. From there, I ran dhcpclient, and that was
> it. Once it was working, I enabled dhcpclient into my /etc/rc.conf, and used
> their CD as a coaster.

If the cable modem connection is the second ethernet in your system (ie. you 
are also connected to a local network) then be aware that dhclient will replace 
the content of /etc/resolv.conf with something suitable for your cable modem 
connection, which is not necessarily the right thing for your LAN. 

If you are using NetBSD 1.3.x, watch out for the dhclient-script 
deleting IP addresses on already configured interfaces, like your LAN 
interface. I think this has been fixed in -current.  Basically, I have modified 
my dhclient-script to exit if it gets called for an interface other then the one 
with the cable modem and to not touch the /etc/resolv.conf file.

For dhcp to work with some cable modem providers you need to set the correct 
hostname, either as the native system name or in /etc/dhclient.conf, just 
for the dhcp exchange:

interface "de0" {
        send host-name "cr1000270-a";
}

> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Brad Salai[SMTP:bsalai@tmonline.com]
> > Sent: 	Thursday, October 22, 1998 4:06 PM
> > To: 	Calvin Vette (IT- Borders Online); James Snow; 'Scott Bartram'
> > Cc: 	port-i386@netbsd.org
> > Subject: 	RE: NAT Trouble
> > 
> > Would you be willing to post, or point to information on how you got a
> > connection to a cable modem up? I am interested, and I know many others
> > are
> > as well. In our area, the cable modem provider is Time Warner, (Road
> > Runner)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Brad
> > 
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