I've not seen this with Cable before but it's possible it's a new setup
for disabled accounts. See if he/she can access 'www' or
'www.nsw.bigpond.com' or whatever the domain you get from DHCP is. Then
try accessing the account info. Anything from 'sorry we stuffed up' to
'you forgot to pay the bill' might surface.
I got this with Optus dialup when I signed up for somebody once... some
private IP space address 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x I can't remember which. I
chased for a while and finally rang them.. there was a website you needed
to hit and enable the account.
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Karl Bowden wrote:
> A friends linux box connected to a Telstra Cable broadband connection
> decided to stop responding tonight, the box is setup using dhcp, and
> bpalogin.
>
> >From what I can determine the DHCP request returns an ip in the range of
> 192.168.100.x instead of an external/usable ip.
>
> Is anybody else experiencing this? Has anybody else had this problem in
> the past? How should have I configured the box better?
>
> I also have an ADSL connection with IINET with a static ip. It uses
> pppoe and even though the ip is static I just let pppoe fetch it with
> dhcp.
>
> Ebout every 10 - 15 days of connection time these machines will stop
> responding to the internet. I can turn the modem off and on again and
> restart that connection but the connection is momentery. It is not until
> I reboot the machine that the connection will be established reliably
> again. What gives? Should I not use DHCP (Maybe it's a lease problem)?
> Thene is nothing in the logs to indicate what's going wrong. It just
> timeouts. It happens on both machines, one on cable in Sydney (RH8), and
> one on adsl in Forster (RH9).
This one's a little harder to fathom... try adding a daily/hourly ping to
some host on the net. My thinking is some sort of inactivity timeout. Also
an alternative to rebooting, perhaps down & up the interface daily. Won't
answer the WHY? question but may narrow it down.
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