NTL "broadband" connection

[adrian johnson]

Hi

It worked ok for me, I transfered the card from windows (after setup of the 
account) to a smoothwall box, set smoothwall to use DHCP and its never let 
me down (even when my ip address changed).

ajohnson


>From: Sam Pikesley <samdavidpikesley at yahoo.co.uk>
>To: adrian johnson <eyewarp at hotmail.com>, steve at twistedfish.net
>CC: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: NTL "broadband" connection
>Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:01:18 +0100 (BST)
>
>Nope, we did it all using a linux laptop... you have
>to do a bit of tcpdump-ing, have a look at what's
>going on with arp requests and stuff, eventually you
>will pick out the address of their
>mac-address-authentication webserver, and bob's yer
>uncle. Of course this means that I've never agreed to
>their T&C's, either...
>
>--- adrian johnson <eyewarp at hotmail.com> wrote: >
>Steve
> >
> > I use NTL,  the only problem you will have is that
> > you need to setup the
> > account using windows, then transfer the network
> > card from the windows
> > machine to your bsd box, or mess around with MAC
> > addresses. NTL use the NIC
> > MAC address to identify the card.
> >
> > ajohnson
> >
> >
> > >From: Steve Purkis <steve at twistedfish.net>
> > >To: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
> > >Subject: NTL "broadband" connection
> > >Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:45:01 +0100
> > >
> > >Dear all
> > >
> > >I connect a BSD "gateway" box to the net via BT
> > ADSL USB modem at present &
> > >supply net connections to other BSD & Win machines
> > on a little network. I'm
> > >considering moving to NTL & understand they supply
> > a cable modem that can
> > >connect via USB or Ethernet (but not much detail on
> > their site!).
> > >
> > >Are here any problems I should be aware of? Any
> > comments on their service?
> > >
> > >Many thanks
> > >
> > >Steve
> > >
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