[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux on AT&T cable

[Ron Hamilton]

At 09:35 PM 5/9/2002 -0700, Minh Duong wrote:
>Is anybody out there connecting with AT&T cable?  I
>want to create a home network with a linux
>firewall/router but I'm not sure if AT&T requires
>special protocols like NetBios in order to make the
>connection work.  I know that for a while @Home
>requied NetBios to keep track of the users because
>they didn't want to employ other means.  Since AT&T
>absorbed @Home users last year, they may be still
>using that technique.
>
>Personally I always believed this was thoughtless.
>Since cable is already somewhat insecure, using
>NetBios as an ID tag is like keeping all your doors to
>your house unlocked so that people looking for you can
>walk in and inspect it to identify you personally
>rather than looking at your street address.  But
>that's just my opinion.

I do it like this.. I have the at&t cable connected to my mandrake 
desktop.  The desktop has two ethernet cards.  One is connected to the 
cable modem, and the other runs to a hub.  All other computers connect to 
the hub.  Easy as pie.