Later this week, I'll be getting a cable modem installed (Time
Warner/Roadrunner/whatever) and I'm curious about the DHCP they use. I'm
pretty sure the tech will be clueless about setting up the cable modem with
Linux.

I have a regular sort of DHCP client on my Debian box (I'm not sitting near
it right now, so I don't know exactly what package it has). Will that work?
Is there anything unusual about the DHCP system they use? I know Roadrunner
used to have a very strange login system, but they scrapped that, right?

If it's any help, I used to have Qwest DSL and a Cisco 678, and my box
worked with getting an address from the 678 via DHCP.

I just want to know the details ahead of time. Forewarned is forearmed and
all.

Thanks,

Dan


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