AT&T @home configging

[my_name_isobel]

hello,
this is my first post here, but i plan to stop back by regularly... i'm IT manager for a place running Win boxes, but want to introduce linux to our office...

this is a question for at home first though...

I have an AT&T @home cable acct, but the way AT&T verifies it's a legit box dialing in on that acct is thru checking the "name" of the computer (set thru network properties in windows). is it possible to "name" my linux box? it need to be set to something like "c1077263-a" in order for AT&T to "let me in"... is there a way to do this?

i'm running SuSE 7.0 professional on a celeron 500... both my NICs work etc.. i just need to be able to authenticate to AT&T's network... does anyone else have their acct set up like this?

i eventually want my linux box to maintain the connection, then split it off thru a netgear fs105 switch to two other boxes in my house. i already have a windows box doing just that, but i want to have a lil linux server "1st in line" for the connection.

Also, will my speeds be affected by my poopy lil celeron maintaining the connection? i have two high end PIIIs, but want to use the lil cele as the gateway.

any help would be just lovely... thanks so much.

(i have it set so emails get sent with each post here, so just reply and i'll get it!)

thanks again.

[TC]

Do a search of this site for cablemodem or @home. Also try these.
http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/cablebasics.html
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html

:D

TC

[[GoRN]]

i've heard that before but my linux box on @home doesn't have a name like that (it's name is nixel)

i have a static ip which could make the difference.

-out-

[DMR]

Sure, you can configure your Linux box for @Home. The c-xxxxbla,bla is your hostname, and you'll enter it when you enter the rest of your net config info. Read the Cable Modem HOWTO as TC suggests above; it has @home-specific setup info. Note that @home verifies your computer's identity more by the MAC address of you NIC than the name (the HOWTO addresses this).

As far as the celery goes, a lot of people dedicate their old 486s to gateway/firewall duty- your 'puter should be fine.

[ 07 April 2001: Message edited by: DMR ]

[cduguid]

I don't think that @home where I live relies on the mac address of my nic for verification, because I switched connected boxes with no trouble. (When my old lan-city cable modem fried and had to be replaced, though, my ip changed... but that's something else entirely.)

I _do_ have to set my hostname on my gateway/firewall computer to cr-xxxxxx-a, though.