Chris wrote:
On Thursday 29 June 2006 6:03 am, ET wrote:
goat screw is that EL is telling me that suddenly my IP given to me by
Sprint is being blocked from accessing Earthlink support newsgroups. I
thought that if I managed to change it it may fix the problem, however,
from what I see I'm doing something wrong.
Any ideas?
the eth0:0 was my wise a$$ answer about getting a different IP, if you
already had an ip (a second IP number for the same interface card and
cable connetion)
Since your IP is given out upstream (your ISPs server) and it will be
looking at physical addresses such as the mac address of the router or
network card, for what you are hoping to do, we may need more
information, such as do you have a fixed IP that you purchase or is it
in a dynamic IP range that never changes for you? do you have a router
between your computer and cable modem (or how exactly do you connect to
the internet).
I connect directly through the DSL modem, the IP changes occasionally. I
could just reset the modem and get a different IP, but, from a post I just
read in alt.provider.earthlink, that may not fix the problem either.
Apparently sprint sometimes opens up a new block of addresses and informs
earthlink. Earthlink is 'supposed' to add these to their 'approved' list of
IPs that can access the news servers, they apparently haven't done what
they're supposed to do. I've emailed sprint with the transscript of my
chat session with El and will see what they say.
Chris
I like e-link, but hate sprint.
E-link has been my ISP since 1995, but my sister's business used sprint
for hosting, and I went nuts trying to get crap straight, so much so
that I finally told my sister either get rid of sprint or get someone
else to deal with them. I don't think sprint should be allowed to be an
ISP (along with comcast).
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