manual Cox cable config (!)

[Gontran]

* Chuck Collins (cstude1@home.com) wrote:
> I have Cox cable that is not on a windows network. I have Irix 6.5.14
> machines coming through a BSD firewall.  Cox does not support this OS. How do
> I do it manually? ChangingBSD to dchp from static takes me of line.  Is there
> a FAQ on Cox cable site for ##ix systems.

Really, no.  It's an unuspported OS, and more strictly, utilizing "Cox
Services" (heh) for more than one machine at a time (heh heh heh) is prohibited
along with IP Translation ... ie, no IP Masq.  Just finished reading the
cox.net terms of service. So this email never happened, and you're using 
Win95.

For those of you putting conversion off to the very last minute, such as
myself, allow me to share my most apprehensive speculations.

To initiate the conversion process, one must take the Confirmation number
mailed in the Cox Toolbox (heh), and click through a couple of web forms
correlating your account's authoritative email address with it, and allowing
you to select a new password for your administrative account.

The next instruction is to toss in the install CD.  Oh oh, threw mine out
along with all the glossies from the Cox Box (heh) -- that mailing cost them
a gem!  But no need to worry, looks like the CD just autoconfigures your
TCP/IP settings for DHCP (as far as anyone knows).

Couple of things here:  Before I was instructed to pop in the ol' CD, it was
made clear that any other email accounts "must" be configured _after_ I convert
the DHCP settings.  And further, (THIS COULD BE A MATTER) I should
be careful NOT to change the cox hostname currently assigned, before I attempt
the "migration".  

So for anyone, not myself, considering using a LEAF LRP solution to protect
their SINGLE computer from the internet at large, be sure to send that old
cox identifier the first time, but probably not again.  This could mean
some config file editing.

THIS IS SPECULATION.  Am just strategizing on the change -- if I hear from
a friend how it actually goes, I'll drop a line.

By the way, speaking of LEAF LRP.  A recent announcement was made of a
single floppy 2.4.16 based LEAF firewalling solution.  Iptables firewall on
a floppy, sure!  Why not!

http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/

Cox n fishnet!


wot,
Gontran

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