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
> >
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