----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 9:20 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Problems with Telstra
Cable that have been happening over the last 3 days
Hi Sluggers,
I was wondering if anyone else
has been having trouble connecting to Bigpond cable lately. Since about
Thursday I've barely been able to connect. I'm running RedHat 7.1 with the
default kernel and I've had cable working since January with the service being
down only a couple of times during that time and each of those times I've been
able to check the web and see that there was a problem with the
network.
Now though there is no problem with their network
and if I use my win2k box to connect with their software everything works fine
(hence how I am sending this message). One thing of note, and I believe this
may be the problem, is that I have had the same IP address since I joined BPC
and set it up for linux. From what I've read about dhcpcd this is entirely
possible as it tries to use the same IP in cache whenever it query's the
server. With the win2k box though each time I connect I get a new IP and this
has been over a period of the 4 days of no Linux.
I've tried getting dhcpcd to get a new ip by
using the -k option to get it to release the current ip and start it up with
the -n option but all it does is make the current ip work for maybe 6hrs then
the whole thing dies again. It says it's receiving heartbeats too quickly and
that it's discarding and then directly after that it says it's receiving a
bandly structured packet and discarding that. At this point, if I was
connected, I no longer am and I'm cannot get back on for up to 12
hrs.
I have all my services blocked from the outside
yet I still notice multiple attempts to port 80 by telstra cable ip's. n.b.
icmp is still allowed since that would muck up heartbeats. The only port
allowed to connect from outside is the ip of my dce-server on port 5050 to any
port on my box. Of note though, even if I shut down the firewall completely
nothing changes.
So after explaining my plight, 2
questions.
1) Is anyone else having issues with bpalogin and
telstra cable or is it just me.
2) Is there any way to force dhcpcd to get a new
IP? I have read the man page for it and the -k -n two options seem to be the
only way but that doesn't work for me.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul
