For about 30 minutes, Cox gave me a 192.168.100.something address. My wife told me that "the internet was out" and indeed the cable was down. I restarted networking on the gateway box and got a surprise when it assigned me an internal network address. The address could ping LSU but I knew it would not be readable from outside. Restarting networking gave me the same number. My neighbor had his normal address and a release and renew did not change it. A few more pumps and Cox gave me back the address I had before the change.
Anyone got any ideas about what happened? I don't think my little network stands out. I don't run p2p and my traffic should be light in a world of video conferencing. They might not like me serving http on port 1024, but I imagine they have bigger problems than my baby pictures and classwork.
