Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 11:04:57 GMT Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:24:48 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm puzzled. Why should a DSL modem be tied to a particular ISP? The only > > thing I can think of is that one uses PPPoA and the other PPPoE. But the > > modem should sort

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:24:48 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm puzzled. Why should a DSL modem be tied to a particular ISP? The only > thing I can think of is that one uses PPPoA and the other PPPoE. But the > modem should sort that out for itself when it connects upstream. ISPs looked

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 11:03:10 GMT Dale wrote: > Either way, it doesn't work. Once I get the one labeled AT, I'll be > able to know for sure. I'm 99.99% sure I have the right password. The > one I have coming will verify that as well. If it works, right > login/password which pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

On Monday, 30 December 2019 19:18:47 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > On 2019-12-30 09:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Is anyone feeling less clueless than me? I'm out of ideas now and hoping > > for some help. > > I set up a new NFS server in the last weeks or so and had this weird > problem where I

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 01:25:32 GMT Dale wrote: > >> I found out the name and such from the previous user. I couldn't see the >> password tho. Anyway, it seems this is locked to Frontier ISP. I put in >> the right user name/password and it wouldn't connect. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 12:42:26 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 11:04:57 GMT Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:24:48 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I'm puzzled. Why should a DSL modem be tied to a particular ISP? The > > > only > > > thing I can think

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

I just saw this long thread ... missed all the fun! On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 01:25:32 GMT Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 11:08 AM Dale > > > > wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > Grant Taylor wrote: > > >> On 12/30/19 1:04 PM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 01:25:32 GMT Dale wrote: > I found out the name and such from the previous user. I couldn't see the > password tho. Anyway, it seems this is locked to Frontier ISP. I put in > the right user name/password and it wouldn't connect. It tried but no joy. > > Before

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

On Monday, 30 December 2019 23:39:52 GMT Jack wrote: > Bizarre new thought: have you tried putting the IPV6 address from > ifconfig into the browser? That's the address of eth1, not the modem-router. As the kernel has IPv6 support built in, it automatically assigns an fe80 address to the