[TriLUG] replacing a hard drive

Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:15:38 -0400

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In this post Stephen has articulated the best reason to maintain a
working MS OS... to avoid RR tech support induced strokes - lol

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Schaefer [mailto:stephen_schaefer27517@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 12:20 PM
To: trilug@trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] replacing a hard drive

I self-installed about three years ago, when they gave
me a surfboard cable "modem".  I know I didn't use any
windows software, because I shred any of those satanic
bits that come into my house.  Seriously, the only M$
I've got is DOS 3.1 on a 80286, no network card.  From
my experience, the cable modem acts as an almost
transparent bridge, so all your Linux box needs is a
working DHCP client daemon.  I say "almost" because it
consumes one time-to-live hop on outgoing packets.

If you too have a surfboard, then for fun and giggles:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.100.10 up

Then point your web browser at 192.168.100.1.  I've
looked, but I've never, ever touched anything on the
surfboard.  The RR support I've talked to are Linux
hostile, and it seems they'd love nothing better than
to void my contract.  I've learned that when things go
wrong, the only thing I can do is turn the cable modem
off (unplug from wall power) and turn it back on.  The
other option is to wait, or start paying $256 a month
for business service.  Eventually your problem (which
is not your problem, but RR's) will get fixed because
their Microsoft clients will complain.  Calling them
does nothing but put me in danger of a stroke.
Unfortunately, they're also the fastest connection I
can get.

    - Stephen

--- Jason Tower <jason@cerient.net> wrote:
> when i 'self-installed' RR a year or two ago, i seem
> to recall that i had
> to install a win32 app on my windows box to
> initialize the cable modem or
> something to that effect.  i think it had some sort
> of PPPoE client to
> communicate with the central office so that it could
> "authorize" the mac
> address of the cable modem and grant it access.
> once that step was
> complete, however, the app could be uninstalled and
> never used again, and
> the cable modem acted as a dhcp server and handed
> out an address to the
> first nic that requested it,
> win/lin/mac/bsd/whatever.
>
> jason
>
> > Unless this is a new Road Runner policy, I think
> you have been
> > mis-informed.  If you use Linux, you have to do
> the "self-install".
> > Basically you have to plug your Cable Modem
> network cable into your own
> > box.... not a big deal.
> >
> > Jon Carnes
> > ===
> > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 11:12, Alan Ellis wrote:
> >> I am setting up this machine so I can work from
> home using RoadRunner,
> >> and now I find out that they will not give me the
> service with Linux
> >> OS unless I pay "business class."  Therefore I
> need dual boot.
> >>
> >
> >
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>
> ------------------------
> Jason Tower
> Cerient Technologies
> jason@cerient.net
>
>
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