Attbi Woes

[peterman at eecs.tufts.edu (Charles Peterman)]

So the question is whether or not these machines will be lynx friendly.
Like many of us, my firewall is a salvaged academic box running _free_OS_.
By salvaged academic box, I of course mean "unable to run X in any
reasonable manner."  We shall see tonight, when I get a chance to do this
again.  If all proceeds according to plan, I will post a short how-to so
others can avoid this dance.

Thanks for the information, hopefully its the clue by 4 that I need.

-Charles

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Peter R. Wood wrote:

> Within the last month or so, ATTBI has started a migration of cable modem
> databases to a central database.  Customers are now supposed to provision
> their cable modems themselves.  DNS works so that you are able to visit one
> of these two addresses:
>
> https://sas.ne1.attbb.net
>
> https://sas.ne2.attbb.net
>
> They are part of ATTBB's new self-provisioning system for the cable modems.
> Just walk through the steps and hopefully it will get you registered
> properly.  If that doesn't help, then let's go back to the drawing board.
>
> Don't ask me why they do this or how it works, I'm just a customer who has
> figure it out through trial and error and tech support.
>
> > I've had no problems since I was hooked up 4 months ago with Attbi in
> > Tewksbury.  My firewall is a FreeBSD machine NATing for the internal
> > network, and after the install I just called up AT&T tech support to give
> > them my MAC address, and 5 minutes later fired up dhclient.  Neither the
> > service nor the machine has been down since, and I'm quite pleased with
> > the speed.
>
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