Re: [kinda offtopic] cable modems under linux?

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:19:58 +0100 (BST)


In my area, cable modems have an RJ45 Ethernet connector. As such they
work with any OS/platform that supports 10baseT ethernet (and TCP-IP
obviously).

Of course you can do neat tricks such as address translation/proxying with
Linux but that's a separate issue.

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, BlueFlux wrote:

> I'm sorry for this question, however we are soon getting cable modems
> where i live so i thought i would ask you all if there is any support for
> this in the kernel?(or should this be in userland? nah...)
>
> I dont need an full answer, just some pointers to what to read and so
> on(and where to find it=)

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