Sounds just like a network hiccup, probably nothing to worry about. I used to get those all the time with Cox (and never get them with DSL, although I have different problems with Bellsouth).
What, if I might ask, do you do at LSU? I ask because I am a student there. David Jackson On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 21:08 -0500, Will Hill wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
