What's the cable modem you have? This happened to me once when I was switching between modems. My linksys modem refused to pick up an ip from cox. I had to powercycle the modem couple of times before it picked up an IP.
I don't think cox enforces usage. or monitors ports. They block incoming port 80 & 25 and filter port 25. -- Karthik Poobalasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/09/2004 09:08 pm, 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.
