Re: ADSL and Linux

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Hi.

>Your not really suppost to be running a "server" from home with GOL's 
>service.

I know. The reason I want to set one up is for learning purposes. I'd like 
to learn how to set-up a secure web server and get some cgi/PHP programming 
experience. All in the name of getting a better job :)

(Technically speaking though I don't see anywahere in the GOL contract that 
says I can't set up a server ... maybe they should add that to their 
contract just for clarity's sake).

>I don't have that service myself (just got cable modem last week), so I 
>can't
>say much about the IP address except it is dynamically assigned. In my case 
>my
>cable modem company, Jcom, dynamically assigned me an IP which BTW hasn't
>changed. I also setup a win2k pc for my wife and used ipconfig to get the 
>ip that
>Jcom assigned me.

How is you service? Do you like it? Set-up and speed ok? Do they have any 
restrictions on setting up a server? If the service is good and they don't 
mind me setting up a *very* low bandwidth server (call it a reasearch 
project) then maybe it's worth considering a switch to another provider.

Jc
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