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Re: [LUG] Eurobell cable modem, and a couple of monkeys!



I'm delighted to hear that Eurobell's up and running
on broadband.
I'm still waiting a call from them, having shown an
interest on their website.

Ring them up and book an install date

As I currently have just a single desktop machine I
would appreciate advise on network cards best suited
to the task. Eurobell offer to supply one for 10
pounds.

Any network card that has a utp port on it. £10 isnt too bad, cheapest ones I've 
seen are about £8. Al it basically is is a dhcp connection, and they need your MAC 
address to register you. 


They also mention that they will not install on a
Linux box but do admitt it will work.

I think it does, at least I assume so, as I'm posting from my laptop right now with 
a rather nice windowmaker background. 

As eurobell offer off-peak no charge calls between
their phone users could a cable modem user connect to
another eurobell phone and then act as a mini ISP to
the other user?

If you can set up a dial up server, yes, just enable ip masqurading between eth0 and 
ppp0, and get the other user to dial you.


Trevor Sansom

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