Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-02 Thread Dave
On 1 Apr 2012 at 10:21, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sunday 01 April 2012 08:57:00 Da Rock wrote: Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? My neighbor had a recent cable outage of an existing cable on our block that was too low and a moving van hit it.

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-02 Thread Dave
On 1 Apr 2012 at 19:05, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:50:42 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Given that the other tech in question asked me to help him, and he is a Winblows nut like yourself, I think this premise can be dismissed out of hand. I won't even bother to qualify the rest, I

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-02 Thread RW
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:18:19 +0100 Dave wrote: fbsd8 How do you connect to your TW ISP? Just a Cable modem of some sort, or is there a Router involved somewhere? It makes a whole world of difference If you read the rest of the thread you'll see that that the problem was solved

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-02 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On Apr 2, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: On 1 Apr 2012 at 19:05, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:50:42 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Given that the other tech in question asked me to help him, and he is a Winblows nut like yourself, I think this premise can be

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 14:06, Outback Dingo wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Sunday 01 April 2012 08:57:00 Da Rock wrote: Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? My neighbor had a recent cable outage of an

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:52:26 -0400 Fbsd8 wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:35:41 +0100 RW wrote: The difference here is that the DHCP server is in a different address block to the DHCP server, That should be: the temporary address is in a different address block to the DHCP server ___

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Outback Dingo
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:35 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:52:26 -0400 Fbsd8 wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/04/2012 14:35, RW wrote: I had a modem that did something similar, it issued a temporary private ip address and the replaced it with a routable address. It's fairly sad that they don't use the officially mandated[*] 169.254.0.0/16 netblock which is what DHCP clients/servers are supposed

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:35:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 01/04/2012 14:35, RW wrote: I had a modem that did something similar, it issued a temporary private ip address and the replaced it with a routable address. It's fairly sad that they don't use the officially mandated[*]

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 00:59, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:35:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 01/04/2012 14:35, RW wrote: I had a modem that did something similar, it issued a temporary private ip address and the replaced it with a routable address. It's fairly sad that they don't use

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 01/04/2012 15:59, Jerry wrote: Mathew, I don't know if it is as cut and dry as that. The OP claimed That's Matthew with two t's. that his Microsoft PC connected properly but not his FreeBSD machine. That, in itself, is certainly not surprising. I have always had better luck setting up

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:27:36 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Until it loses that configuration and you're expected to delete it and re-enter the connection details... Or until elephants fly, or whatever. Explain why it would be so hard to configure various functions as file sharing and some of

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Fbsd8
Well here is the results of my attempts to connect to Time Warner cable network. After 4 calls to their call center which was in the Philippines where all the people just read a scripted answer FAQ and only had the ability to remotely reset the modem. I finally requested to talk to the top

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:10:52 -0400 Fbsd8 articulated: Well here is the results of my attempts to connect to Time Warner cable network. After 4 calls to their call center which was in the Philippines where all the people just read a scripted answer FAQ and only had the ability to remotely

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 02:29, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:27:36 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Until it loses that configuration and you're expected to delete it and re-enter the connection details... Or until elephants fly, or whatever. No. This is the common mantra for any Windows net

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 04:10, Fbsd8 wrote: Well here is the results of my attempts to connect to Time Warner cable network. After 4 calls to their call center which was in the Philippines where all the people just read a scripted answer FAQ and only had the ability to remotely reset the modem. I

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:20:02 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Both networking in FreeBSD _and_ Winblows can be difficult at times. My point is that Winblows is not some magical fairy that can make everything better. It doesn't. It quite often gets it wrong, and when it does its a b**ch to fix-

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 08:41, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:20:02 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Both networking in FreeBSD _and_ Winblows can be difficult at times. My point is that Winblows is not some magical fairy that can make everything better. It doesn't. It quite often gets it wrong, and when

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:50:42 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Given that the other tech in question asked me to help him, and he is a Winblows nut like yourself, I think this premise can be dismissed out of hand. I won't even bother to qualify the rest, I wouldn't want to ruin your delusion. No

Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Fbsd8
Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my Freebsd 8.2 box functions because it worked fine under att service which I just

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my Freebsd 8.2 box functions because it worked fine

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Fbsd8
Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my Freebsd 8.2 box functions because

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 10:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Al Plant
Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 10:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 11:22, Al Plant wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 10:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 01 April 2012 06:52:48 Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my Freebsd 8.2 box functions

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 01 April 2012 08:57:00 Da Rock wrote: Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? My neighbor had a recent cable outage of an existing cable on our block that was too low and a moving van hit it. Apparently the Windows system works, so I'd assume

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Outback Dingo
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Sunday 01 April 2012 08:57:00 Da Rock wrote: Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? My neighbor had a recent cable outage of an existing cable on our block that was