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Phil Kaslo's account of cable modem installation

Called Cox Communications, 884-0133 to arrange install.
$ 49.95/mo, $ 49.95 install, $ 129.95 cable modem purchase.
$ 39.95/mo if you have cable tv. No static ip address.
I called on Friday, 4/11/03.

Cox came out Tuesday 4/15 to do the install. They provide a CD of software to install and run under Windows.

Set Windows 2000 to get ip address and dns server automatically.
To do this, go down through the menus and change:
  Control Panel
    Network and Dial up Connections
      Local Area Connection
        Properties
          Internet Protocol TCP/IP
            Properties
              x Obtain Ip Address Automatically
              x Obtain DNS Werver Automatically
Then reboot Windows. (Or in a command prompt window, do 'ipconfig /renew').

Set Linux (Redhat 8.0) to get ip address automatically.
To do this, edit the file 
    /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
so that it has the following line:
    BOOTPROTO=dhcp
and then reboot Linux. (Or in a terminal window, do '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart'.)

Boot windows and linux. Try netscape and ssh. They should both work.

Install VPN (Virtual Private Network) software from https://sitelicense.arizona.edu/vpn/vpn.shtml

Click on 'VPN Overview and Step by Step Guide' https://sitelicense.arizona.edu/vpn/vpn.shtml.  This is worth the two minutes it takes to read.

Click on Download. Fill out the UofA VPN registration form. 
Then the page https://sitelicense.arizona.edu/vpn/vpn_dl.html shows a list of files that can be downloaded.

If on campus, you can click on 'ftp download':
For Windows:
    vpnclient-win-is-3.6.Rel-k9.exe
For Linux:
  vpnclient-linux-3.7.2.Rel-k9.tar.gz
  PCF FILE : University_of_Arizona.zip
If off campus, click on 'authentication download' for the above files.  This will prompt you for your UA Net ID and password.

For details on how to establish a UA Net ID account, change or reset a password, as well as account descriptions, go to https://netid.arizona.edu.

After downloading these files, install them:

Windows:
Download the file vpnclient-win-is-3.6.Rel-k9.exe and double click on this so as to run it. It will open up an installation procedure.  After this finishes, reboot Windows.  In Start/Programs/University of Arizona/VPN Client, click on VPN Dialer. This opens up a window in which you click on connect, and enter your UA Net ID username and password. It authenticates and you then click on continue. This establishes the tunnel.  After this connections to the university using netscape or ssh will appear to come from a hostname/address such as 'general-campus-2-1.vpn.arizona.edu', ip number 150.135.114.1.

Linux:
Download the files vpnclient-linux-3.7.2.Rel-k9.tar.gz and University_of_Arizona.zip.

Do 'unzip University_of_Arizona.zip'. This extracts the file University_of_Arizona.pcf.

Do: 
  gunzip vpnclient-linux-3.7.2.Rel-k9.tar.gz 
  tar xf vpnclient-linux-3.7.2.Rel-k9.tar
This creates the directory ./vpnclient.
Do 'cd vpnclient', then as root do 
  ./vpn_install
This opens up an installation procedure.
After this finishes do 
  /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start

Then copy the file University_of_Arizona.pcf to /etc/CiscoSystemsVPNClient/Profiles/University_of_Arizona.pcf

Then run /usr/local/bin/vpnclient:
  vpnclient connect University_of_Arizona 

This prompts for your UA Net ID username and password.

After it connects, you can connect with a hostname/ip number appearing as it does above with Windows.

Then run netscape and connect to sites such as:

http://www.library.arizona.edu
http://www.library.arizona.edu/indexes/links/azstarnet.shtml

Throughput, copying file down from CS dept host and up to CS dept:

download, scp, 3160 KB file: 9 seconds 360 KB/sec
upload, scp, 3160 KB file: 103 seconds 31 KB/sec


Last updated January 7, 2008, by John Luiten
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