Do Telstra still use this ugly heartbeat - thought they were going to scrap it because it stops people using VPN software.
Matt At Sunday, 05-05-02 09:20 (+1000), Paul Robinson wrote: >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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
