Cable modem, router, and nic

[Peter Reed]

Jeff Vian wrote:

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> Peter Reed wrote:
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>> Michael Gargiullo wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:36, Peter Reed wrote:
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>>>>> 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
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>>> 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
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>> Thanks Mike,
>> How about some good nics to use with linux?  Any Ideas?
>> Peter
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> I have had good luck with intel,  any of the 8139 chip nics,  3com 
> (most), and even a lot of the ne2000 compatible nics.
> In general, if linux will see it and configure it at boot time it 
> probably will work with little or no problems.
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> I use the solution with 2 nics regularly, and then configure iptables 
> for the firewall.
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Thanks for all the help.
Peter