<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br><br><br>Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:40:25 -0400<br>From: Tony Nelson <<a ymailto="mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com" href="http://us.mc841.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tonynelson@georgeanelson.com">tonynelson@georgeanelson.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem solved<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" href="http://us.mc841.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a><br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:1245350425.19768.0@localhost.localdomain" href="http://us.mc841.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=1245350425.19768.0@localhost.localdomain">1245350425.19768.0@localhost.localdomain</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>On 09-06-18 11:36:02, John Aldrich wrote:<br><br>> My guess... your ISP had something messed up and just waiting fixed <br>> it. :-) Even if
you called them, they probably would have denied <br>> there was anything wrong. Or, they might have admitted they had an <br>> outage or something. You never know. :-)<br><br>
I did call and when I said that it worked OK in Windows, she lost
interest. When I said my problem was in using Linux, she didn't hang up
- but her brain did. It was much as I expected since they don't claim
to support Linux<br>
.<br>> As others have said, you are probably only allowed one IP address <br>> issued to one MAC address, which timed out overnight, and your attempt <br>> to use a different MAC address worked in the morning. If you only ever <br>> have one machine connected to a network, you can give them both the <br>> same MAC address, as was already suggested to you. That won't work f <br>> you wish to use more than one machine on the network (and Internet) at <br>> the same time, in which case you should get a small home NAT box / <br>> Router and configure it to present the expected MAC address (or just <br>> wait overnigth again).<br><br>As far as I understand it ( and I don't claim to ), I used the same MAC address all the time. At least I never changed it.<br>
I have another computer, ( sort of a standby) that doesn't play in
this recent activity. But I used to exchange the ethernet cable from
the DSL modem between the two computers (rebooting each time, and had
no problems. Of course that is a different network with different
policies probably. <br>____________________________________________________________________<br>TonyN.:' <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com" href="http://us.mc841.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tonynelson@georgeanelson.com">tonynelson@georgeanelson.com</a>><br> ' <<a href="http://www.georgeanelson.com/" target="_blank">http://www.georgeanelson.com/</a>><br><br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:45:12 +0930<br>From: Tim <<a ymailto="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au"
href="/mc/compose?to=ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>><br>Subject: Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem solved<br>To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using<br> Fedora." <<a ymailto="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" href="/mc/compose?to=fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:1245341712.21824.2.camel@suspishus.lan.cameratim.com" href="/mc/compose?to=1245341712.21824.2.camel@suspishus.lan.cameratim.com">1245341712.21824.2.camel@suspishus.lan.cameratim.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain<br><br>On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 11:36 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:<br>> Or, they might have admitted they had an outage or something. You <br>> never know. :-)<br><br>With one of my old ISPs, anytime you mentioned you had a problem they<br>either said they'll look into it for you, or they thought it'd be due to<br>something they were
working on (and they'd say what it was). Even if<br>you didn't know whether it was true, they didn't piss you off. Unlike<br>some other ISPs who always say there's nothing wrong at their end, and<br>it's all your fault...<br><br>-- <br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>>Message: 9<br>> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:52:09 -0500<br>> From: Bruno Wolff III <<a ymailto="mailto:bruno@wolff.to" href="/mc/compose?to=bruno@wolff.to">bruno@wolff.to</a>><br>> Subject: Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem<br>> To: Frank Cox <<a ymailto="mailto:theatre@sasktel.net" href="/mc/compose?to=theatre@sasktel.net">theatre@sasktel.net</a>><br>>Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q? Community_assistance, _encouragement,<br> > =09and_advice_for_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?using_Fedora.?=<br> > <<a ymailto="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com" href="/mc/compose?to=fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a>><br>>
Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:20090618155209.GA31920@wolff.to" href="/mc/compose?to=20090618155209.GA31920@wolff.to">20090618155209.GA31920@wolff.to</a>><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 18:21:14 -0600,<br>> > Frank Cox <<a ymailto="mailto:theatre@sasktel.net" href="/mc/compose?to=theatre@sasktel.net">theatre@sasktel.net</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:54:02 -0500<br>> > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:<br>> > <br>> > > Will the modem give the same IP address to another NIC after the<br>> > > lease has expired, or after you power-cycle the modem?<br>> > <br>> > I'm not entirely sure of the answer to that. I know that power-cycling the<br>> > modem doesn't change anything in that regard, and further than that I've > > > never<br>> > asked about. If I need a modem reset I just call the
NOC with the serial<br>> > number on the modem, the modem lights go off for a few seconds, and<br>> > when it<br>> > comes back the reset is complete.<br><br>> If you think the mac address is the problem you should be able to test that<br>> theory by setting the mac address of the linux box to match the windows box<br>> and see if that gets things working.<br><br>> Add a line like the following to the ifcfg-eth? file (and you may need to<br>> be running the network service as I don't know if network manager uses<br>> that info):<br><br>> MACADDR=DE:C1:A5:51:F1:ED<br><br>> Except you want to use the mac address of the windows box.<br><br>> You'll want the windows box off the network when you try this.<br>><br><br>I apologize for not being more clear about my setup. I only use one computer, which boots fedora, ubuntu, puppy, or Windows XP. When I try the cable modem I connect an ethernet cable from the modem
to the integrated nic on the motherboard. Before the cable modem connection was working, to use the internet, I powered down, replaced the cable with another ethernet cable connected to my DSL modem on Verizon.and rebooted. So it is the same computer, software setup, and nic. When I use Windows on the cable modem or Linux on the cable modem, it is all the same hardware.<br> When I was having the problem, In linux I could ping yahoo.com and it sent and recieved packages with no losses and it gave me the IP adress of yahoo. So, DHCP was working (since I had an IP address), It was connected to the net ( to send and recieve packages) and DNS was working (since it resolved yahoo.com) and the MAC addresses of the modem and nic must have been OK.<br>In linux I tried to connect with many of the addresses in my bookmarks and none of the URLs would connect. exceot google, where I seemed to be able to do anything; gmail, googleearth, search etc. And, If
I restarted into Windows XP, firefox connected with everything normally.; with all the same hardware. <br> I think it must have been something in the handling of TCP between linux and the modem. The problem is ,for now at least, gone so I can't trouble shoot it any more. The problem is solved in the sense that I don't have it any more - not that I found the problem and fixed it. <br> I want to thank you all again for the help.<br>-------------------------------<br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>