Bob, Russell was asking a few questions and after this long, there is still no clear and definite answer.
Could you please try to contain your frustrations and answer that, and only that? There is no help possible without knowing the facts. 1. What is this "dal" - what does that abbreviation mean? 2. Does your internet works when you connect a computer to DSL modem directly? 3. If answer to 2. is yes, what is IP, net mask and default route for the computer connected to DSL modem? 4. What is WAN IP on your LAN router when you connect it to DSL modem. 5. What IP, netmask and default route do you get when you connect a computer to LAN side of your LAN router? Thank you, Tomas On Dec 15, 2017 7:59 AM, "Bill Weiss" <[email protected]> wrote: Bob Vinisky([email protected])@Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 06:32:02PM -0800: > > > Can you ping the internet from the router? It is plugged in directly. > > > > Are you sure you haven't scrambled your ethernet cables? > > > Yes and no <grin> From the router, or any other machine on the LAN I can get to the dal modem. Can successfully ping the dos servers and gateway. One of the Frontier techs gave me the ip no. for Frontier.yahoo.com - their web portal. Interestingly enough I could ping it Tuesday, but not Wednesday or today. > > My brain is now scrambled. > > Russell, I have checked, double-checked, cross-checked, and toasty cinnamon-coated wheat checks the entire setup, LAN and WAN, rebooted everything that was capable of rebooting, and then, just to make sure, checked again. > > The only conclusion I can draw is that Frontier has made a change in their system, or, this was their policy all along, and it took them this long to catch up to me. Possibly dumb proposal: Unplug all the ethernet everywhere, then unplug the DSL modem from power and put it in time out for a minute. Plug in the DSL modem, wait for it to come up. Optionally, scramble your computer's MAC address. Plug your computer into it, make sure it has internet. Unplug the computer, give the WAN side of your router the same MAC address as your computer, plug WAN into DSL modem. See if that works. If so, use router like normal and go about your business. This used to be the thing you had to do with cable modems before all the cable companies got with the program. They can track what kind of device you have, sort of, based on your MAC prefix. They can also just refuse to learn more than X MAC addresses and keep you from connecting a switch to the stupid thing that way. Most routers even have a handy MAC cloning feature for just this sort of thing. -- Bill Weiss _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
