I actually called cox one day a few months back for this same issue. I was troubleshooting my cable connection and brought my laptop from work home to test with. Long story short they said the cable modem does indeed keep a table of the MAC address that was last connected to it. I was instructed to turn off the cable modem for about 5 minutes (to be positively sure) and then turn it back on. This cleared the table. Since then I've continued to do this and never had any problems. I have a Toshiba PCX2200.
-- Brad Bendily - CNA On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Cleve Allison wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
