Rogers high-speed internet

[James Knott]

Colin Smillie wrote:
>
>
> On 1/22/07, *Daniel Armstrong* <dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> <mailto:dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>> wrote:
>
>     Can the cable modem be accessed and configured through a web browser?
>
>     Does the Rogers cable modem act as a router and dynamically assign a
>     IP address to the connected Linux box?
>
>
> No real problem with connecting Linux with Rogers but the Rogers modem
> is essentially a black box that you never interact with.  About once a
> year I need to unplug it but otherwise it just sits their with some
> blinking lights. 
>
> In my case I connect the ethernet connection from the modem into a PC
> that runs Linux.  The only problem challenge I encountered is that
> rogers assigns you a hostname to be used for DHCP requests.  Once I
> figured out how to configure the DHCP-client to send the Rogers host
> name it wasn't a problem.  Apparently Rogers uses the hostname to as
> part of the authentication/registration to the modem...

I never had to do that.  I simply configured the ethernet port for DHCP
and nothing else.  The host name is derived from computer and modem MAC
addresses.

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