Inficad was aquired by Getnet.net who has been my ISP since May, 2001,
when I transfered from Qwest.net. I have been more than satisfied with
Getnet's service and support.
Art Wagner
Tom Snell wrote:
>Yes, I've had Qwest DSL for a couple years with my old ISP, Inficad (whom
>I'd used since they started with dial-up). IP address is static, and they
>still use bridging mode (they'd intimated a year or so ago that they were
>going to go PPP/DHCP, but it's never happened). Have the Cisco 675, still
>on CAP. No PPOE necessary....I just bridge it through to a Linksys
>single-port broadband router, where the NAT is configured, to a 5-port
>switch (this was the quick, dirty, cheap way to go....didn't have the
>parts/cash to set up a Linux router box). The network config on the Linux
>workstation is pretty much vanilla LAN.
>
>Inficad's level one techs aren't always astute as to the config of
their own
>Redback router, but the one or two guys there that you would consider
>'sysadmins' will listen if you back up your assumptions with some
facts. In
>fact, in the nearly six years I've been with Inficad, I've probably had to
>call them three times....not a bad record for any ISP. I honestly can't
>remember, up until this past week, the last time they've ever gone down
>(they run FreeBSD webservers, IIRC). From their website, though, it
appears
>they've just been sold, and I had some downtime (short-term) twice this
>week. I just hope they don't go the way of the old Primenet, which was a
>cool little ISP back in '94-'95, but went downhill after GlobalCenter
bought
>them out.....
>
>Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Guy
>Chouinard Jr
>Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:10 PM
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Linux on Qwest DSL with own ISP
>
>
>Hi
>
>I am wondering if there are any people in the group using
>Qwest DSL with their own ISP. I called Qwest tech support
>and they were a bit helpful but for the most part clueless.
>
>If you are running Linux on Qwest DSL with your own ISP as
>opposed to Qwest.net I need to know:
>
>Do you have a static or dynamic IP ?
>
>If you have dynamic are you using Roaring Penquin as a pppoe client ?
>If static do you just config eth0 with your static ?
>
>Is Qwest using CAP or DMT encoding ? I know CAP is being phased out in
>most places.Are you using a CISCO 675 or 678 ?
>
>I live in an apt complex and have a security system that utilizes the
>phone
>if someone were to break in so I may have to filter the signal or get a
>"home
>run" installed from the dmark to my apt, but that's a sync issue.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Guy
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