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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:52:01 +0100 (BST)
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And Lo! The Great Prophet " Darrell Blake" uttered these words of wisdom...
> I'm going to get blueyonder broadband installed in a few days and I've
> noticed  that others on this list have blueyonder. I was wondering if
> someone can give  me some information as to how it will work with linux?
> Is it fairly easy to  get running in Linux? Also, is the connection RJ45
> or BNC?

dhclient (or dhcpcd) should do the job -- BY configs your internet-facing
network card with DHCP. So once the Engineer's been and shown it working
under windows, you can reboot (or change machines or ...) into
linux/bsd/plan9/etc, then "dhclient eth0" (or similar) and Bob's your second
cousin twice removed. Hopefully. Pump is reportedly rather crap at DHCP
(will work, but not not renew leases properly), so is best avoided.

What needs to be done however is for each network card you wish to connect
to BY, you need to register the MAC with BY (maximum of 5)... you can only
have one of the cards facing the internet at a time though :) But may be
useful if you change machines about, though it seems more trouble than its
worth as people on the BY newsgroups report that you need to leave the
network unhooked for about half an hour or more so the BY servers can
"forget" which MAC it was talking to. Easier to stick with one card, and run
everything through NAT :)

The physical connection is 10baseT (UTP/RJ45).

Working succesfully here with OpenBSD for the past year and a bit (and
previous to that, Linux for a year and a bit). IP has yet to change from
what I was granted 2 or so years ago...it's been next to static :) Woohoo :)

Chris...

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