Linux with a Telewest(blueyonder) Cable Modem

A link to a BY user (Ron Wellsted) who recently started to use the BY CM service and has managed to get it working successfully with Linux

http://www.wellsted.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/config-linux.html

Linux & CableModem Sharing

Linux has extensive networking capabilities built right into the kernel, you can share your CM connection using IP Masquerading - this is a NAT'ing (See Home Networking for more details) system, and can be enabled using the 'ipchains' tool, this same program also allows to you build protective firewalls for your system. For more information please visit: -
http://ipmasq.webhop.net/.
Also check IP Filter :-
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html
and
http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html

Linux also supports virtual interfaces (or IP Aliasing), this allows you to share your connection using a single NIC (with the CM plugged into a hub or switch). You can find out more info here :- http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias/

Other Linux Links

• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/

• http://www.ukuug.org/

• http://www.justlinux.com/

Also:

• John Winter's shop:
  http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/

• Samba (for sharing the network with windows machines):
  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/index.html

  or download the whole thing as a pdf from:
  ftp://ftp.ora.com/examples/misc/samba/sambapdf.zip
  

Router stuff (for all those sharing their cablemodems)

Good articles by Trevor Marshall of Byte magazine at:

• http://www.trevormarshall.com/byte.htm

• http://www.linuxrouter.org/

For dial up users :

• http://open.nit.ca/wiki/?page=WvDial

• Also Alan Cox's site http://www.linux.org.uk/

Finally not forgetting the fountain of words:

• The Linux Documentation Project

Last Amended : 2004-03-15 by elfin
Original Author : Rob