cant setup up comcast cable modem

[Manfred Riem]

Hi Bill,

That's exactly the procedure I had to follow to get my router working,
so I assume it is not going to be any different with the FreeBSD box.
You'll have to install / dual boot into Windows, use the install disc,
note the data and then you'll be off. 

Manfred Riem
mnriem at gmail.com

On 7/12/05, Bill Campbell <freebsd at celestial.com> wrote:
> 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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Manfred Riem
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