Re: [SLUG] Cable internet

["Andrew Reilly" <areilly@nospam.nsw.bigpond.net.au>]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 02:16:34PM +1000, Peter McCarthy wrote:
> I remeber recently hearing some discussion about connecting a linux box to a
> cable internet connection.  Is this correct ?

Yes, there has been some discussion about it.

> Can it be done ?

Yes.

> I believe that
> Telstra won't give fixed IP addresses with cable connections, does anyone know
> if this is still the case ?

Yes they won't give fixed IP addresses, and yes it is still the
case, but that doesn't (necessarily) preclude connection from Linux
(or other unsupported systems) that have DHCP client programs.

The IP leases seem to be six-hourly, but they seem to be renewed
without change continuously, as long as you stay connected and
don't change ethernet cards.  In my experience, they only change
when some network re-orgnaisation takes place, which seems to happen
three or so times per year.  So you can use a dynamic DNS service
to give you a resolvable name that will work most of the time, but
you won't ever get a reverse-lookup to produce the same name.

> Does optus have a similar service that will give
> fixed IP's ?

Yes they have a similar service that won't give fixed IPs.

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Andrew
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