WH Bouterse wrote:
> This one was from a few weeks back;
>
> I am running a mostly 24/7 cable-Modem
> with static IP and L-M 6.1.
> A change by my ISP caused my remote access
> to die every few hours as if I had
> a dynamic IP without running DHCPD or PUMP.
> I had not had to run those services before,
> with the paticular service my ISP provides.
> Even logging out and back in or rebooting
> would not fix the problem. Only rebooting
> into M$ then rebooting into L-M again
> would get me going for a few hours more.
>
> After repeated emails and phone calls
> to my ISP/Cable modem Provider and
> talking to half-a-dozen people I finally
> got a guy in tech support who runs
> Linux-Mandrake at home. !HooRay!
>
> The gist of it was;
>
> Within 5 minutes of describing my problem
> This person said not "Oh I dont know, we didnt
> really change anything, or "Uh, I only know NT",
> but "Hmm that sounds interesting, let me check
> something out".
> Giving him the MAC # on my cable modem ;
> (a COMPORT 21) he discovered they had tacked
> on some kind of Net Bios Source IP Filtering
> on my unit to prevent I think it's Ip Spoofing.
> REMOVING IT DID THE TRICK !!! As simple as that.
Note to someone: We need to discover the protocol on this and make sure
we don't have to have it removed. Expect more such brainless "features"
from Microsoft going to the ISPs. The attacks on Linux will be stepped
up, in all likelihood, and we need to look to defending ourselves as a
community. Perhaps there is a mailing list I don't know about dedicated
to this? Or perhaps one needs to be formed?
Civileme
>
>
> Anoter case for checking with ISP as to their
> "Linux Literacy". So thanks again to Civileme
> and Axalone and the others who sent help and ideas
> and yes it was the "ISP" as Civileme thought.
>
> Finally a Problem solved, (and it wasn't my doing
> for a change)!~!! :>)
>
> Now lets see where was I with all those questions?!
>
> William Bouterse
> Juneau Alaska
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