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  • Re: cable modem cards / CMTS (was: UUCP Networks)

    From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to John Levine on Fri Mar 22 16:27:17 2024
    On 3/21/24 15:33, John Levine wrote:
    I think I still have my EISA Telebit modem card somewhere.

    /me grumbles, cable modem cards, something else to mess with once I get
    a CMTS of my own.



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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net on Sat Mar 23 01:24:40 2024
    It appears that Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> said:
    On 3/21/24 15:33, John Levine wrote:
    I think I still have my EISA Telebit modem card somewhere.

    /me grumbles, cable modem cards, something else to mess with once I get
    a CMTS of my own.

    Telebits were dialup modems that ran at 1200bps, which was pretty fast
    for the time, and spoofed the uucp "g" protocol to send large blocks
    of data faster than would otherwise be possible.

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to John Levine on Fri Mar 22 23:46:01 2024
    On 3/22/24 20:24, John Levine wrote:
    Telebits were dialup modems that ran at 1200bps, which was pretty
    fast for the time, and spoofed the uucp "g" protocol to send large
    blocks of data faster than would otherwise be possible.

    /me facepalms

    I don't know why I thought about cable modem cards.

    I've heard about the Telebits and how they interposed themselves in the
    line protocol.

    I know multiple BBS SysOps that spoke of them fondly.



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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to vandys@vsta.org on Sun Mar 24 17:21:46 2024
    It appears that Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> said:
    John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
    Uh, what? Every Comcast cable modem I have used in recent years
    provides IPv6 addresses.

    I just double checked. The Comcast network is definitely only giving
    my modem an IPv4 address. Do you mean your modem gives you an IPv6,
    is it a true IPv6 address (as opposed to the IPv4 slice of the v6 space)?

    Yes.

    Can people in the outside world reach you at that IPv6 address?

    I can't check since I'm no longer at a place with Comcast service but as
    I recall I could ssh out to my servers over IPv6 and it worked.

    Comcast is a whole bunch of cable systems glued together so it would
    not be astonishing if some bits of it still don't have IPv6 support.
    Or maybe you just need a new modem.

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