broadband connectivity advice

[Alex Snow]

actually some routers have telnet/rlogin interfaces.
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 
at 08:27:47PM -0000, Guy Abandon. wrote:
> The thing about Linux and Cable, is that it is a plain old ethernet
> card as connection and that is there by default and should simply work
> if connected.  Ok, there are more issues about dhcp and dynamic ip
> address allocation or having a static.  What we did was to get a
> D-Link DI-704P router and had that hooked to the cable box/modem and
> then hooked all 4 computers including the two Linux ones, to the
> sockets on the hub.  The router is set thorugh a webmin type interface
> on a standard 192.0.somethingorother to do the basic interface bits
> for picking up an ip address and registering one or few (up to 5) with
> the isp.  I should add that these routers do depend on a m9inimum
> level of i.e explorer to interact with the rounter, so you'll need a
> windows machine to do it even now.
> 
> How does all this sound so far.
> 
> Bob H.
> 
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