Jeff Vian wrote:
Peter Reed wrote:
Michael Gargiullo wrote:
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:36, Peter Reed wrote:
I was about to purchase a cable modem, router and nic card Any
sugestions on
what I should purchase for the above would be appreciated. I of
course run
fedora so something that will be compatible with fedora would be
optimal. And
thank you for all the fine reading.
Peter Reed
Peter,
Depending where you are, if you truly want to BUY your own
modem, make sure it's upgradable to Docsis 2.0 ie... terayon 715 ,
motorola 5200, and a few others...
Any cable modem router will work just fine on 99% of the systems out
there. After you setup your modem and router, check the lease time
on the router. If you notice that you loose connectivity at t he
half way point (ie 30 day lease, after 15 days your router looses
connectivity) turn WAN ping on (It's a long involved DHCP
issue..good reading though)
You could always run IPTables and 2 nics on your fedora box
(using it as the firewall). This is what I run on the comcast network.
-Mike
Thanks Mike,
How about some good nics to use with linux? Any Ideas?
Peter
I have had good luck with intel, any of the 8139 chip nics, 3com
(most), and even a lot of the ne2000 compatible nics.
In general, if linux will see it and configure it at boot time it
probably will work with little or no problems.
I use the solution with 2 nics regularly, and then configure iptables
for the firewall.
Thanks for all the help.
Peter
