On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:44:00AM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Hal -- Without some details, I doubt anyone here is going to be able to
> help you. To the extent that the problems derive from details of Windows XP
> .... well, this is a Linux list, so I doubt we'll be of much help at that
> level in any case.
Thanks Ray for your usual, carefully detailed reply..
I was not clear in my post methinks and from other answers,
separately posted, I had best drop the subject, especially since my
son seems much less interested than his old man..
> First, what is the address? How stable is it? (What I mean is that cable
> modem ISPs usually use DHCP to assign addresses, and in some cases the
> leases have amazingly short lives, even as short as 15-30 minutes between
> address changes.) For ISPs to use Class A addresses isn't that odd, BTW; I
> see a lot of 24.b.c.d adresses, just as an example.
OK I learned a lot with this paragraph.. "Lease," a
new 'computer' word to me must mean the time the ISP devotes to any
specific host's request.. That makes sense.. His address is 68.x.x.x.
(As suggested by johnmxl)..
> Second, what are the symptoms in the failures? When telnet or ping fails,
The ping failure is the standard "10 Packets
transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss." When I'm on the INet of
course.. Glad to hear that Microsoft retains some of the old stuff..
> Third, what does "traceroute" tell you? Where does it stop?
Traceroute makes two hops then many, many tries with
the numbered report, "* * *"...
> Fourth, when you are connected, can your son ping you? Can you ping other,
> known-good sites (big names, say, or even me, if you need a target)? Can
> he? In any cases where the answer is no, what does the failure look like?
I have no problem pinging many sites on the INet, including
the four machines on my LAN, with IPv4 addresses and addresses from
my /etc/hosts file... I don't know if he can ping me and I wont press
it any further. He's happy with what he has - I'm the tenacious one.
<grin>
> Fifth, I'm no Windows expert (though I do use Windows machines) and I've
> never run XP. Is your son sure he is running a telnet server on his
> machine? (I'm putting aside for the moment the usual concerns about the
> safety of using telnet in the interest of troubleshooting the immediate
> problem.) If you are running a telnet daemon, can he telnet to you?
He hasn't tried and, again, I'm not going to press
it. I've been trying to learn Win95 and 98 but it's too complicated
for me.. :^).. Unix makes much more sense..
> Sixth, does your son run any sort of firewalling package on his system? If
> so, might it be interfering with connectivity somehow?
He has a firewall installed that his ISP either gave
him or it may have come with XP..
Years ago he helped me with Unix, now I understand
he's dropped it completely for MSXP.. Oh well.. APPRECIATE!!
> At 01:00 PM 9/8/02 -0400, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> >Greetings: In the country we'll probably never have a cable modem but
> >my son does and that opens the query box as to how I can learn more
> >about them and their use..
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