RE: [SLUG] Cable internet

["Peter McCarthy" <peterm@nospam.dva.net.au>]

Thanx Andrew

I really do need a fixed address as I am hosting web pages and run my own local
mail server, but what I am thingking is if I run my 64k pipe AND the cable I can
give speed + fixed address.
My plan is to use the fixed address off one pipe to host web pages and receive
email, but use my default route to the cable modem for sending of mail and
downloads web surfing ?
I think this would work or an I flopping it in the wind ?

Thanx

PMc

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Reilly [mailto:areilly@nospam.nsw.bigpond.net.au]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 2:51 PM
To: Peter McCarthy
Cc: Linux Sydney (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Cable internet


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.

--
Andrew

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