setting up cable internet connection

[John Lagrue]

Travis Fraser wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:42, Alimin Bijosono Oei wrote:
> 
>>I am thinking of getting a broadband cable connection because this is 
>>the only broadband connection available at my place. Just want to know 
>>from others' experience how easy it is to set this up in Fedora? I 
>>checked the internet configuration wizard tool, but couldn't see any 
>>option for cable connection i.e. options available are CIPE (VPN) 
>>connection, Ethernet connection, ISDN connection, Modem connection, 
>>Token Ring connection, Wireless connection and xDSL connection. Are 
>>there any issues with cable modem compatibility? I am living in 
>>Australia and cable internet provider will be Telstra. I would really 
>>appreciate any help provided. TIA
> 
> My cable modem just hooks into the NIC in my computer via an ordinary
> ethernet cable.
> 

Same here. It gets its IP adress via DHCP from the ISP. The computer 
neither knows nor cares that it's communicating via a cable modem; it's 
just using eth0.

JDL