Brad, Did you have the PCX1100U before your current PCX2200? I lease my cable modem and I'm wondering if it is worth my trouble to have them come and swap it out for the latest, greatest version? Thanks for the info, Cleve
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 22:53, Brad Bendily wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
