Thus said Brandon Beattie on Fri, 03 Jun 2005 10:06:45 MDT: > the Cisco's that is very similar. I have a friend who owns an ISP and > verified that some ISP Cisco routers when rebooted will cause the > subscribers DSL modems to stop working until they are also rebooted. I
This sounds like the customer (not the ISP) hasn't updated the CBOS on the 678 and hasn't disabled access to the ports. There is a well known DoS against the 678 and I believe port 80 (or maybe 23) which can be avoided by simply changing the port and making sure the CBOS is upgraded to the latest. > it. You can try another modem and it may be better, but from my > experience, a Cisco 678 still will have problems. The only problems I have ever had with my 678 were rarely due to the Cisco 678. Indeed: cbos>show uptime Current uptime is 58 days, 11 hours and 10 minutes And the only reason why it is so low was likely a power outage. Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 9:48am up 58 days, 11:08, 3 users, load average: 1.02, 1.12, 1.15 .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
