I went to set my cousin up (he has one of those blue modems) and it wasn't working. I didn't try turning it off for 5 minutes though. I also hadn't had time to research it either. Maybe after this holiday.
-sp On Tue, 20 November 2001, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > Just a blue-sky thought here ... there used to be reports, back on the LRP > lists, that, in some cases, clearing a MAC address required more than a > simple modem reset. Some people reported needing to power-down (as in unplug > from the wall socket) the modem for 5 minutes, presumably to clear some > equivalent of the CMOS a PC uses to hold state between boots. If your "reset > of the modem" hasn't been this thorough, you might try this approach and see > if it helps. > > At 02:03 PM 11/20/01 -0500, Simon Bolduc wrote: > >I too am with @home, as is a friend of mine, we both upgraded to the current > >release of dachstein and while he is experiencing the same problem as you, I > >am not. He has tried different NICs, reconfiguring etc. This could > >potentially be an issue with your modem caching your MAC address (though a > >reset of the modem should repair this if that is the problem - and it > >doesn't) - or perhaps the headend modem caching the MAC. Just out of > >curiousity is your modem a blue Terayon Modem - made out of plastic, kinda > >looks like a shark's fin?? that is the type my friend has, - and is > >different than my type of modem. It could also be a rogue dhcp server as > >the resolution of a traceroute seems a little odd for the DHCP address. > [old stuff deleted] > > > -- > ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- > Ray Olszewski -- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
