Plug (und cox) (fwd)

[tickticker]

port 25 and 110 work fine for me

anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Olson" <john.olson@tetrasystems.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: RE: Plug (und cox) (fwd)


> The more I hear about cox, the more I'm glad to suffer with my sporadic
> SprintBBD service (DSL not available).  For one thing, Cox blocks a
> plethora of ports including 25 and 110 (The list on their site
> somewhere, you really have to hunt for it).
> FWIW, Mesa has two cable systems, Cox and cableAmerica.  I have a friend
> on CableAmerica's cable service and he's happy.  He's doing average user
> stuff, but has a static IP, a cheap router behind his modem serving a
> few Windows boxes, and does VPN to his employer with no problems.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Jeffrey Pyne
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:32 PM
> To: 'plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us'
> Subject: RE: Plug (und cox) (fwd)
>
>
> As part of the Excite/@Home to Cox conversion, I had to convert from a
> static IP address to DHCP.  When I originally changed the configuration
> of my external NIC from static to DHCP (without changing anything else),
> it just would not get a DHCP address.  I'd had the same machine with the
> same NIC hooked up to the cable modem the whole time I'd been connected
> to Cox. Sniffing on the external interface, I could see my DHCP requests
> going out, but nothing coming back.  Again, I didn't change NICs-- I
> just changed my ne0 configuration from static to DHCP.  After I fought
> with getting that to work for a while, I began to wonder if their DHCP
> server was somehow configured to only give out IP addresses to Windows
> or Mac machines.  So I tried connecting a Windows machine (which had
> never before been plugged into the cable modem) directly to my cable
> modem.  The Windows machine immediately got a DHCP address.  I plugged
> the OpenBSD box back in to the cable modem, and again I got no DHCP
> address.  The only way I could get that OpenBSD box to get a DHCP
> address was to power off the modem for a while. Weird.  I still don't
> know why my Window machine was able to get a DHCP address without having
> to recycle the cable modem, but not the OpenBSD
> machine.   I haven't had any problems since I got it working.
>
> ~Jeff
>
> On Monday, July 29, 2002 3:50 PM, tickticker wrote:
>
> > In fact, it's a fact.  if you browse to 102.168.100.(11 or
> > 1?) you can see
> > that the modem holds your mac addies in memory.  when you
> > power it down for
> > so many minutes, your current mac addies are dropped and when
> > you reboot,
> > the new ones are put in memory.  if this is a new nic, you
> > must do this.  I
> > use a cisco 2611 to spoof an intel nic mac address, then
> > nat/dhcp behind
> > that so i can add and remove pc's at will and not be a slave
> > to powering
> > down my modem when i swap machines (i can also have 65000
> > addresses in my
> > class b 10.1.x.x scheme).  The reprovisioning that was earlier in this
> > thread is usually due to the exite-cox cutover and should
> > only need to be
> > done once if at all.
> >
> > my 2 sense
> >
> > anthony
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