Has anyone experienced difficulty in setting up their ip address during
their latest installs?
I have internet service from Cox Cable and use the Toshiba PCX1100U
Cable Modem.
I was having a lot of problem communicating with the outside world....it
would work with one install and not with the next....installations of
the same distribution and across different distributions as well. Very
confusing.
Narrowed it down to the fact that apparently I need to cycle the cable
modem when I use different machines.
What I mean is this...I have two machines.
One is a P200MMX and the other is an AMD Duron700.
I can go from WinXP to Mandrake on my main machine....the Duron700
obviously, and everything is fine. But when I set up another
distribution on the P200MMX I can't successfully connect to the outside
world unless I cycle the cable modem.....and the same it true when I go
back to the original machine.
I guess that these cable modems work much like a switch and have a table
that holds the MAC and IP information and gets confused if there are two
entries with the same IP but different MACs and it has to be cycled to
clean out the cached table.
Just making assumptions here but it does follow the evidence.
Anyone else notice this or am I just the lucky one?
Cleve
