[ale] mediaOne modem

[Jim Popovitch]

All these emails for/against MediaOne remind me about back when I first
got my cable modem the M1 guy (still we behind the ears) asked me for a
preferred username.  I said 'root' and he quickly called it in to the
provisioning center.  Less a minute passed before his PCS phone beeped,
to his astonishment (and his only) 'root' was already taken.  I paused
and thought of 'daemon', 'lp', and 'sys', but decided to opt for a
quicker install.  :)  Oh those Windows only folks are fun.

-Jim P.

--- Jason Lynn <jason_lynn_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sage,
> 
> I also live in Duluth and I just got MediaOne (now ATT, but I still
> have a 
> mediaone.net email addie) cable modem just last week.  I absolutely
> LOVE 
> it... that may be because I have been using 56k dialup for so long
> though...
> 
> The guy came to install it (I provided the NIC card), it took about
> an hour. 
>   As soon as he left, I rebooted into my Linux partition and set eth0
> to 
> DHCP, restarted the network, and everything worked perfect.  I have
> since 
> yanked that NIC out and made a gateway / firewall box that took SOME 
> tweaking, but is seemingly working fine now.  Well, fine enough to
> get 
> hacked by some guy in an internet cafe in Moldova last night
> (thankfully he 
> wasn't good at covering his tracks!).  Seems I need to learn to patch
> up my 
> Distribution a little better!
> 
> If you have any questions, feel free to email me...
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> >From: Sage <morrigu_irm at springmail.com>
> >Reply-To: morrigu_irm at springmail.com
> >To: ale at ale.org
> >Subject: [ale] mediaOne modem
> >Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 13:36:16 -0400
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> >We are about to go with MediaOne Broadband. Unfortunately, NOTHING
> decent 
> >is available (ie, Telocity, Speakeasy) in Duluth, so we're stuck
> with that 
> >or Bell South.
> >
> >Question; This docsis modem they use; anyone had any experience,
> good or 
> >bad with it? We use Slackware and RedHat, and, of course, nobody
> supplying 
> >fast Internet access out here supports Linux.
> >
> >Anything we ought to know?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Sage
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