I don't know what Cable Modem Comcast provided you, but I believe some
manufacturers are now building combo modem/routers...for instance
Zyxel Prestige 645 Series ADSL.

The Sprint circuit here in Virginia was putting these in customer
office and not telling the customer it was strickly a device for
connecting and routing, no firewalling. I had to ad another broadband
router firewall behind this device for protection.

- Don

On 4/26/05, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
> On 4/25/05, Clay James <claynjessijames at comcast dot net> wrote:
> >         Hi.  My question, is the SMC 9432tx not supported in m0n0wall??
> > I have searched through the faq as well as the mail listings and I have
> > not found anything about this card.  I did find it in the list of
> > freebsd supported hardware.  Is there a driver that I need to get to use
> > the SMC cards that I have??
> 
> Those are 'device tx', which is in the m0n0wall kernel, so they should work.
> 
> 
> >         Another thing that we learned, when disconnecting a cable modem
> > from one computer and reconnecting it to another it is best to turn it
> > off (unplug it) then connect it to the next pc.  Maybe it is only the
> > cable modem that we are using but it was one of those head scratchers
> > that we had with monowall at 11:30pm when the modem wouldn't connect to
> > monowall.
> 
> That seems to be common with some modems and/or some ISP's.
> 
> 
> > We also have to power the modem (and sometimes monowall) once
> > a week because the modem gets a new ip address and usually monowall
> > won't reconnect.  Any thoughts on that??
> >
> 
> Cable modems shouldn't get IP's.  They should be nothing more than a
> bridge from your m0n0wall WAN to your ISP.  Your WAN should have a
> public IP most likely from your ISP's DHCP, which should renew and
> function entirely independently of the modem.  Maybe Comcast does
> something weird that the cable ISP's around here don't do, in which
> case maybe somebody else can answer.  If you post back with more
> details, I might be able to help further.
> 
> -Chris
> 
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