another question about roadrunner

[Brian Densmore]

Damn! I never thought to connect the modem to the switch. How'd you do
that?
I have the PC "router" connected to the switch and the modem connected
to my PC, ummm... "router". Plus I paid $30ish for the switch, and
$40ish for the hubs (older and not in use now).

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lindinger [mailto:jilindi at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:53 PM
> To: J. Eric Gilliland; kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: another question about roadrunner
> 
> 
> I just went through this myself...
> 
> Use a 10/100 ethernet card.  The cable modem is only 10baseT, 
> but if you ever want more
> than one computer connected to the internet (like most of us) 
> then you will add an $80 
> router/switch and several PCs will plug into the 
> router/switch/hub. All on your lan will
> access the cable modem through the router/switch/hub.
> 
> RoadRunner install guy will run the cable wire, rj45 wire, 
> and help install MS Windows or
> Mac software, but Linux is not supported, a router is not 
> supported, and they will not
> lift a finger to assist with any of that.
> 
> In my case, At RR tech support guy's direction, I connected a 
> WinNT PC directly to the
> cable modem via rj45 ethernet, installed the MS TCP/IP 
> protocol and set it to use DHCP.
> As soon as I could ping a DNS server on the internet, and my 
> web browser loaded a yahoo
> page, the RR Tech support read me a canned message that my 
> roadrunner was now working and
> they cannot assist me with routers and non-supported 
> operating systems.
> 
> Turns out, my router hooked up without a hitch, the router 
> setup (accessed via http
> browser interface) showed that the router was connected, and 
> assigned an ISP address via
> DHCP. It also listed two DNS name server IP addresses.  I 
> added these two addresses into
> my windows and linux configurations where DNS servers are 
> specified, and twa-la, all the
> computers on my private lan surf and download at warp speed.
> 
> Sorry I can't tell you from memory how to add the DNS server 
> IP addresses to my linux
> config files. I followed along in my RH Linux Bible, was not 
> difficult.
> 
> 
> John Lindinger
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- "J. Eric Gilliland" <patzeric at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > How hard it is to get Roadrunner working under linux? 
> > I use Mandrake 8.1 and will probably have the USB
> > cable modem.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Eric Gilliland
> > 
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