Nick Rout wrote:
>
> surely someone in wellington must know? they've had saturn for yonks
> haven't they?
>
> --On Tuesday, 6 March 2001 17:05 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann
> <kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> >> 2. wondering whethern saturn will do something better for me before I
> >> recoup the cost of the 3com modem.
> >
> > When I talked to them they said they're giving out Com21 modems, and
> > showed me one of them. I asked again specifically, and it's a Com21 1000
> > model. Considering that they hire that at effectively $7/month it would
> > be rather nice if it was working properly with linux and allowed doing
> > all these nice things like routing and firewalling. Now, I don't suppose
> > there's any experience with this yet???
>

The cable modem installed here is a COM21 cp2100, not the 1000 series.

It works with Linux. It's just an ethernet connection. Firewalling and
NAT should be on your Linux box.

--brian

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Received on Tue Mar 6 22:48:51 2001