Nicholas Lee wrote:
>
> > to answer my own question......It appears from the cable-modem HOWTO that
> > you get your public ip on the linux box. Yahoo, that presumably means you
> > CAN do all your own firewalling etc.
>
> The COM21 (the Saturn cable modem) is a ethernet bridging device. Knows
> nothing and caring nothing about the IP layer or addresses. You will note
> though that their network is much like a hub at present. I see everything
> and anything for a large amount of other users on their network.
>

It does rather more that that. See the list archives, particularly a
post by Don Stokes.

> Its also worth noting that on a marco level Saturns network is much less
> realible (it seems) at present than Telecom's. They have half day+ long
> outages at least so far every 8 weeks.
>

Not in my experience. I ping Paradise every 5 mins and log whenever
there is no response. Log reports are very rare.

--brian

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Received on Tue Mar 6 22:53:32 2001