[geeks] Cable modems/routers

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Thu Jun 17 09:04:07 CDT 2004


On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:27:23AM -0400, James wrote:

> > Oh, and if I purchase a PCI cable modem, are there any gotchas?
> 
> Yeah, how do you use a broadband router to share the connection when its
> internal to the computer? Please don't say Microsoft Internet Connection
> Sharing Wizard.

Just to be ornery, ICS does work with unix machines without additional
trouble (meaning, using unix clients is no more troublesome than windows
clients).  It certainly was unstable though.  It was just a stop gap
until a router could be bought, then configured (configuration was
troublesome).



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