Are you resetting the modem after moving the laptop? Most cable modems are locked to a single MAC address on the ethernet side and will only allow the first device seen after power on. Outside of that, I can only see us caching if you are using the squid proxy package.
--Bill On Nov 19, 2007 3:15 PM, Will Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a strange problem... We use a pfSense 1.2-RC2 box on our Comcast > Workplace cable connection. It's a simple two-interface box, WAN > interface using an static IP that Comcast assigned us, and LAN a private > IP, and of course it NATs traffic out to the Internet. > > It seems that Comcast has been having a problem in its billing systems > as regards our account (our acct is being incorrectly flagged as > overdue), and when the problem happens, they redirect all web traffic > requests (TCP 80/443) to a Comcast web site. When this happens, I have > to contact their support (such as it is - I wouldn't wish it on my worst > enemy) and have them reset our cable modem. After they do this, I can > plug a laptop directly into the Comcast cable modem, get a dyn IP addr > assigned to it, and I can then get to web sites as normal. But, if I > then take the laptop, plug it into the switch behind the pfSense > firewall, reacquire a private DCHP addr from the pfSense box, and try to > browse the same website, I still get redirected to the Comcast web site! > It seems that after I reboot the pfSense box, this problem goes away. > > I cannot understand why this is happening... Does pfSense cache in any > sort of a way? I didn't think it does... > > Thanks, > Will > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
