Re: Cable modem/MetroX

["Bob Easton" <bobe pronetisp net>]

On 11 May 98 at 8:11, Ken Hecker <ken_h primenet com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I finally, after putting it off for a month, went through the
> RH5.0 install again yesterday.  I took out half the memory, and
> after a few sig 11 and sig 7, got it to install.  I installed
> MetroX, and it seemed to work fine, but then System Commander
> couldn't run Linux, and so I had to reinstall.  The it ate my
> swap partition (not the first time).  This last time I
> configured two swap partitions, and now I've got a good
> install, and the swap seems to be staying put (the file manager
> has told me in the past that it was deleted, and should it
> remove it from estab) but MetroX won't run.  I get what seems
> to be a common group of error messages about same.  I guess
> I'll just have to reinstall again until it all works at the
> same time.   I don't know RPM very well.  Can I just us it to
> reinstall MetroX without having to reinstall RH5.0 again?
> 
> Next Friday we have our cable modem installed, and I wanted to
> put it on this machine (meant to be a Pentium 100 acting as a
> server for our home's LAN), which also has Win95 installed on a
> separate hd.  We have a friend who has this sort of thing
> running with WinNT, and it is fantastic.  As many computers as
> you can hook up through the hub can access the Internet at the
> same time.  He's even hosting some Web sites from his computer.
> 

This is very human of your friend's cable modem service (which
one?)  In my area, (Time-Warner RoadRunner, Southern Tier,
N.Y.), they specifically disallow more than one computer per
cable modem (unless you pay extra),  they disallow home-based
web-hosting and don't give out static IP addresses.  You can
probably hook up more than one computer via IP masquerading, but
web-hosting is a little trickier.   Perhaps it could be done
with a referral from an outside site that knows the up-to-date
IP address (a little sneaky.)   Further, my system requires that
you use a proxy server which is very slow.  For all the users,
they have ONE, which I find to be a bottleneck. (Other sytems I
know of have four proxy servers, and some systems don't require
you to use one at all.)  Pages take a long time to begin
loading, and then load in fits and starts, and frequently not
completely.  I find it to be a nightmare.  

> 
> Any suggestions for what to do to configure with Linux 5.0, a
> cable modem, and the Web, would be appreciated.
>  

I haven't yet installed cable modem support under Linux (just 
Win95), so I can't give you specific info.  But here are two 
links to start with.  The first has links to a couple system 
installations which may conform to your local system.   
Following all the links should divulge a system like yours. The 
second link has some info specific for my local system.

http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/index.html
http://home.stny.lrun.com/clarkjc/

-Bob

> Ken Hecker
>