I'm getting cable soon, and I want to share it over my LAN in the same way I currently have my dialup shared (NAT). Is it possible to link the cable modem directly to the hub and assign another IP ...

So we see lots of posts about roll your router via ddwrt, tomato, merlin, etc why not the equivalent for modems? I am thinking this would be ideal to roll into pfsense on a VM Of course I don't know ...

The device shown in Figure 17-1 is an RS-232–to–TTL converter board, designed to allow a PC with a serial (RS-232) port to communicate with a device that has a console (TTL) port. External converters ...