Cox@home is the cable provider here in AZ, Excite@home is/was Cox's upstream
provider. As for hooking up to them, well, I don't think it should be that
hard.
Find out what driver your NIC card will need in linux. Make sure you have it,
either compiled into the kernel or as a loadable module.
Put the card in your linux box and configure it to use DHCP to get an ip address
for that card with a HOSTNAME=<name given to you by cox>. As for hosting a
website, well technically according to the TOS with Cox you are not allowed to
run any servers on their connection, but of course you can if it doesn't eat up
a lot of bandwidth.
As long as you didn't lock apache to the localhost IP address in httpd.conf, it
should be visible to the outside world as soon as your NIC has an IP address by
going to the IP address given to you.
To use a domain name you might have to use a Dynamic DNS service like easyDNS
(others on this list will have suggestions for this), then whenever your system
gets a change of IP (either from reboot or some other reason) it will contact
that service and update your DNS entry for you. Of course on some connections
like Cox's they use a stupidly long DNS cache time (like 2 weeks).
hope this all made some sense :)
> I just received a cable modem & ethernet card from family out in Richmond,
> Indiana who's service went bankrupt (sound familiar?). So, he sent me his
> modem and I want to hook it up. Who's the best (is excite or cox the only
> choice?) Also, since I would have a fast, permenant connection, I want to
> host my web site on my own box. I have it working as http://localhost. How
> would I go about hooking it up? Where can I find information about doing
> this in Linux?
>
> Thanks alot in advance.
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