Re: [tlug] NTT Hikari Fiber - Does it "Just Work" with Linux (Kubuntu)?

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Keith Bawden wrote:

> The thread was about home usage (or at least I think it is). I cannot
> imagine a home package not coming with a compatible router for the
> service on offer.

Well, we have a home package, and we didn't get a router. (We're in a
typical "SoHo" situation; our building's apartments are about evenly
split between use for office space and use for living space.)

> A business line is of course a totally different kettle of fish. for
> example a business USEN line will come with a media converter (fibre
> to copper) and nothing else. Plugging your box directly into the media
> converter works as USEN also provides DHCP services directly.

As does the "8-IP-Address" home Usen service. And this very definitely
is a home service; they will refuse to install it in office buildings
(though they will install it in offices in apartment buildings).

cjs
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