earthlink hispeed

[eculbert]

Thought that nowdays, any 'respectable' system would
be automatically up and running with live distros of
linux, but didn't know for sure.

Thanks

ED
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--- Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:37 -0800, eculbert wrote:
> > Somewhere in the back of my mind, I think I heard
> that
> > earthlink doesn't do auto dhcp from something like
> a
> > live cd such as Knoppix. Am I on track or all wet?
> and
> > it does automatically detect and is 'online' like
> > qworst dsl and cox cable?
> > 
> > I have someone possibly talked into trying it.. I
> > would have to mail it to them in California. 
> > 
> > Just curious..something 'dinging' in the back of
> this
> > head.
> > 
> ----
> dhcp is a standards based service and if earthlink
> connection provides
> dhcp (almost assuredly they do), they would provide
> the standards based
> dhcp with which any reasonable dhcp client should be
> able to function -
> be that client Macintosh, Windows or Linux.
> 
> Cox and cable modem technology in general tends to
> lock in the hardware
> address of the dhcp client and to switch computers
> using a dhcp
> connection on a cox cable modem, that requires a
> complete power cycle of
> the cable modem. Thus at most inconvenient, it may
> be necessary to power
> cycle the connecting hardware to change systems.
> 
> Craig
> 
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