It must have just been a temp tesltra problem, because this morning it works fine.
- Karl On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 00:58, Grant Parnell wrote: > 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. > > -- > ---<GRiP>--- > Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, > Linux Guru, SLUG/AUUG/Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, > BMX rider, Walker, Raver & rave music lover, Big kid that refuses > to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! > Do people actually read these things? - - -- ---- ----------------------------------------- --- -- - - Karl Bowden Pacific Speed email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.pacificspeed.com.au - - -- ---- -------------------------------------------------------------- --- -- - - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
