Yeah, I pulled a boner and connected the cable modem directly with my windows box and then did the conversion (doh!). anyway, from I can tell they are looking at the MAC unless someone can tell me diffrerent of what xid: rejected would mean in pumps output to the daemon log. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Technomage wrote: >what this windows box connected to the cable modem directly? > >I did the same thing from a windows box INSIDE my natted network here and >didn't have this problem (the ip was grabed as soon as the change-over hit) > >perhaps this is why I was able to get a new ip with a linux box (it was the >gateway). > >Technomage > >On Tuesday 29 January 2002 09:40, you wrote: >> I think maybe I can verify that. I did the conversion with my windows >> box, which in restrospect was a bad idea. since Then i have not been able >> to get my firewall to grab an IP. I can put it in statically and pass >> traffic. When I use pump and watch the logs this is what I see right >> before a timeout: >> >> xid: 0x63aabbdf4a rejected <-> 0x64aabbddcf >> >> My suspicion is that this is their dhcp server rejecting my request on >> what I can only assume is the MAC address of my NIC. although I cannot >> find any decent documentation. >> >> On 28 Jan 2002, Craig White wrote: >> >On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 10:32, Jeffrey Pyne wrote: >> >> I've been having trouble, as well. I thought I had it all figured out, >> >> but apparently not. I did spend almost 2 hours on hold Saturday morning >> >> (listening to Tori Amos or Enya or whomever-- I requested AT LEAST two >> >> songs for the hold music, and the tech support guy replied that many >> >> other people had requested the same thing). >> >> >> >> Anyway, I found something interesting: I had been having trouble >> >> getting a DHCP lease for the past week. Sometimes I would not get a >> >> DHCP_ACK from their server. Other times I would get one and I would get >> >> my old @Home IP address, but then I wouldn't be able to ping my default >> >> gateway or connect to anything on the Internet. When I finally spoke to >> >> someone Saturday, I told him that I was getting an IP address of >> >> 24.x.y.z, but that I couldn't connect to anything on the Internet. He >> >> said, "Hmmmm, that's an @Home address; you should be getting an IP >> >> address that starts with 68." Interesting. He wanted me to look at my >> >> "Workgroup" setting, so I quickly connected my Win98 box to my cable >> >> modem and reconfigured it and rebooted. He had me change the Workgroup >> >> to "@COX.NET" and reboot. But while I was futzing around with this, he >> >> said a supervisor had just told him that their "provisioning server" was >> >> down and that I would not be able to get an IP address from DHCP until >> >> it was back up (oh, and there was no E.T.A.). After I expressed my >> >> displeasure and hung up, I tried rebooting the Win98 box just for fun. >> >> When I did, I immediately got an IP address and could connect to >> >> resources on the Internet. Bizarre. I connected my firewall back up >> >> and ran 'dhclient ne0' and I got my old IP address again (even after >> >> deleting /var/lib/dhcp.leases, which is an OpenBSD thing)). I tried >> >> manually assigning the values I received on my Windows box to my >> >> firewall, and then I could connect. So are they using some DHCP server >> >> that only hands out IP addresses for computers in the same "Workgroup?" >> >> If so, what about Macs (which they support)? I'm confused.... >> >> >> >> Also, a guy at work said that he was told this weekend that the old >> >> LANCity modems don't work with the new network (or rather, they work, >> >> but only intermittently). (And indeed, http://status.cox.net/view.asp >> >> shows that this is an issue.) My co-worker is trading in his modem at a >> >> Cox office today. I have a LANCity modem, too. I think I'll trade it >> >> in just for the hell of it. What kind of modem do you have? >> >> >> >> ~Frustrated in Phoenix >> > >> >---------- >> >I thought that someone mentioned that the new cox setup changes from a >> >hostname authentication to a mac address authentication to get dhcp >> >service. This would suggest that in the conversion process, the first >> >assignment with your cxXXXXXXX-x hostname captured the mac address of >> >your network interface and locked it down. Thus switching to another NIC >> >(computer/router device) would mean that it can't capture an ip address >> >unless you call customer support and they release it. >> > >> >If this is true, and I haven't verified it, this would make it a bad >> >idea to use a windows computer to get the ip address from the dhcp >> >server and then switching it out for a linux box. >> > >> >Craig >> > >> >________________________________________________ >> >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't >> > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. >> > >> >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> /************************************************************************** >>**/ / >> / / John Kloian III VP Network >> Operations / / Opnix, Inc. >> http://opnix.com / / >> / / .Innovating Internet >> Intelligence. / / >> / >> /************************************************************************** >>**/ >> >> ________________________________________________ >> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't >> post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >________________________________________________ >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > /****************************************************************************/ / / / John Kloian III VP Network Operations / / Opnix, Inc. http://opnix.com / / / / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / / / /****************************************************************************/