Cable modem, router, and nic

[Michael Gargiullo]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 18:49, Peter Reed wrote:
> Michael Gargiullo wrote:
> 
> >>On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:36, Peter Reed wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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
> >>>      
> >>>
> >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
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Thanks Mike,
> How about some good nics to use with linux?  Any Ideas?
> Peter
> 

Never had any problems with Intel 10/100 pro or 3com915tx

the broadcom 10/100/1000 cards too

Sorry, I haven't used any cheap cards... Some have gotten Netgears to
work though.