Will, While I've never had it happen to me, I've heard that COX HSI (and other Cable providers too) have been known to hand out private IP addresses when you cannot be authenticated; I've heard it often times forwards you to an account page asking you some questions about your account to try and add your cable modem's MAC address back into the system. Could this be what you saw? Possibly.
As for COX HSI being able to block certain ports or services, I'll say it is possible, and in some part, actively being pursued. An acquaintance at work had a problem with ident on IRC, took COX 3 trips and 3 technicians before they finally said, "Oh look at this, port 113 is blocked in the Cable Modem, that shouldn't be happening!" Now, was that just a scapegoat excuse, I don't know, but, the fact that they at least think they have the capability to block at the modem is scary :) -- Justin W. Pauler E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.jwpauler.org > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jeremy Beckham > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 8:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox Slap? > > I have a Motorola Surfboard. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brad Bendily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 10:27 AM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox Slap? > > > > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Jeremy Beckham wrote: > > > > > I do a 5 second power cycle when switching betwwen comps and it works > just > > > fine. I switch between my desktop (2 nics, one for windows, one for > linux) > > > and my ibook all the time. > > > > What modem do you have? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
