Right, well it looks like there is a standard now... my setup is probably
"old school" now.  http://www.cablemodem.com/ has stuff about the
DOCSIS standard; http://www.cox.com/Phoenix/CoxAtHome/approved.asp
shows @home's modem list.  LanCity isn't even listed.  So I wonder
how long before they will be wanting to replace mine because it's
obsolete.

If I just plug in a new modem, LanCity or another kind, would it just
work, or would it require configuration changes on their end?  And
would I be likely to lose my static IP, due either to the modem
or to the configuration changes that they'd probably make?  I'm
thinking maybe they identify the customer by means of a unique ID in
the modem, and a different modem would have a different one, and so
maybe when it handshakes with the network and gets its IP address,
it would come up different.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:53:26PM -0700, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:19:13PM -0700, Mike Starke wrote:
> > Her friend informed me that cox will only 'support'
> > certain cable modems; otherwise there is a charge 
> > for the install. Hmmmmmmmmmmm, sounds a bot strange.
> 
> Well it used to be because they're not interchangeable.  The one
> I rent from them is a LanCity modem; I don't know if there are 
> others that are compatible with it now or not.  Anyway they will
> sell you a modem if that's what you want.  And you can certainly 
> use a BSD box as a firewall, I do it with Linux myself... but it
> should have two NICs, one for the modem and one for the LAN.

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