Did you try resetting power on the modem? I think the modem sees the NIC's MAC address at powerup, and may refuse to talk to any other NIC without a power reset. On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:06:03PM -0700, John Kloian III wrote: > 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. / > / / > /****************************************************************************/ > > ________________________________________________ > 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 -- _______ Shawn T. 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