Cable modem, router, and nic

[Michael Gargiullo]

> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:36, Peter Reed wrote:
> > I was about to purchase a cable modem, router and nic card Any sugestions on
> > what I should purchase for the above would be appreciated. I of course run
> > fedora so something that will be compatible with fedora would be optimal.  And
> > thank you for all the fine reading.
> > Peter Reed
> 
Peter,
	Depending where you are, if you truly want to BUY your own modem, make sure it's upgradable to Docsis 2.0  ie... terayon 715 , motorola 5200, and a few others...
Any cable modem router will work just fine on 99% of the systems out there.  After you setup your modem and router, check the lease time on the router.  If you notice that you loose connectivity at t he half way point (ie 30 day lease, after 15 days your router looses connectivity) turn WAN ping on (It's a long involved DHCP issue..good reading though)

	You could always run IPTables and 2 nics on your fedora box (using it as the firewall).  This is what I run on the comcast network.
-Mike