(continuation of DHCP and Adelphia cable) Right now I'm in the process of testing the connection to see if I can find the problem, and the problem appears to be something with my linux setup.
Here's what I've done: * I had a working setup using eth0 connected to a router to the internet (machine name==white). The company providing this had slow access, so I decided to switch to cablemodem. * I have hooked up a win98 system sucessfully using DHCP on the connection, and gotten FAST speeds (60/80k/sec) using a test download (DAOC update) * I then hooked in my debian system's eth0 to the cablemodem, and put the same parameters that were on the win98 system in the /etc/network/interfaces file * I have a win98 system attached to white via eth1 and IP masquerading (setup worked with previous ISP). I try my test case (DAOC update) and get dirt slow (1-2k/sec) speeds until I get disconnected. I've eliminated almost everything that I can think of. The only possibility I can see left is that there is some nuance in communicating with a cablemodem that I'm missing! Any help is appreciated-- The cablemodem is around 7x faster than my old service! --Mike
