On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 18:49, 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 > Never had any problems with Intel 10/100 pro or 3com915tx the broadcom 10/100/1000 cards too Sorry, I haven't used any cheap cards... Some have gotten Netgears to work though.
