comcast stopped working

[Ed Wilts]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:21:03PM -0700, Stephen W wrote:
> Today I am unable to connect using Comcast Highspeed
> cable modem.  It has worked fine until today.
> 
> When I try to log on I get a message "OS not
> supported."  
> However, when I go to comcast using dial-up I can get
> in using RH9.0 just fine.
> 
> Is anyone else having that problem?

My personal recommendation to everybody has to get a low-end Linksys
router box (or equivalent) and connect to the Comcast service using
that.  It gets the DHCP address and your Linux system is statically
assigned and just uses the Linksys as a default gateway.  I suspect it's
*much* easier to call Comcast and tell them that the Linksys router
couldn't get an address than it is to tell them that Linux couldn't get
an address.

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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