Re: cant setup up comcast cable modem

From: Bill Campbell (freebsd_at_celestial.com)
Date: 07/12/05

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    Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:41:38 -0700
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    On Tue, Jul 12, 2005, Robert Huff wrote:
    >
    >Brant Anderson writes:
    >
    >> I have tried everything on the web and have had no luck. I have
    >> the cable modem direct to the freebsd computer (through ethernet
    >> card) but I can not reach the internet. I try to ping but it
    >> comes back host could not be resolved. How should I set up my
    >> network?
    >
    > My girlfriend, who is a tier 1 Comcast internet service rep,
    >says you probably have a bad modem configuration file _on their
    >end_. She advises this is a common problem ("We've been getting a
    >lot of that recently.") and you should call Comcast tech support.

    Typically when setting up Comcast cable connections, the first thing you
    have to do is initially configure your web browser to use their server as a
    proxy server. Comcast traps all connections from new sites to their
    server, but unless you have it set to proxy from that same server, your
    machine cannot complete their sign up procedures.

    If one changes the device connecting to the cable ``modem'' (e.g.
    from a Windows machine to FreeBSD box, or perhaps to a commodity
    router/firewall from Netgear, LinkSys, etc.), you will probably
    have to power cycle the cable modem to get it to accept a NIC
    with a new MAC address. Most of the low-end router/firewall
    appliances have the ability to change their MAC address to deal
    with cases where the cable/DSL provider hard codes it to the
    original machine.

    Bill 

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