Re: [newbie] Cable in, but network dies
Could the way you are running it be either - bypassing the login/keep-alive process so that when the connection times out it doesn't get re-made, or - result in the the linux machine being seen as a second user - without a valid login. I don't think it's not a keep-alive issue because it happens right in the middle of a download. There's no login mechanism at all, really. As far as ATT is concerned, there is no computer other than the gateway because I'm running NAT. I remember one guy on this list who I helped to get his cable running, who would start the connection from his W$ machine, then fire up linux and have the connection survive for a few minutes then die. That was because of this login issue. I don't think that's it, but I'm a broadband newbie, so I won't rule it out. Thanks Brian. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Cable in, but network dies
Some ISP cable servers ping your machine in different ways and expect responses. It those responses are not seen, you machine may drop off the cable network. Basically their router no longer believes your connection is alive. Overly restrictive firewall rules will sometimes cause this. At the moment I'm suffering from a bad Cable Modem or signal quality issue which also does the same thing. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miark |Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:19 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable in, but network dies | | | Could the way you are running it be either | - bypassing the login/keep-alive process so that when the connection | times out it doesn't get re-made, or | - result in the the linux machine being seen as a second user - | without a valid login. | |I don't think it's not a keep-alive issue because it happens |right in the middle of a download. | |There's no login mechanism at all, really. As far as ATT is |concerned, there is no computer other than the gateway because |I'm running NAT. | | I remember one guy on this list who I helped to get his |cable running, | who would start the connection from his W$ machine, then |fire up linux | and have the connection survive for a few minutes then die. That was | because of this login issue. | |I don't think that's it, but I'm a broadband newbie, so I |won't rule it out. | |Thanks Brian. | |Miark | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable in, but network dies
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:55, Miark wrote: I got cable installed today. The cable modem is hooked up to a Win98 laptop that's connected to my network with a PCMCIA ethernet card. The laptop is acting as a gateway machine running WinRoute Pro. When I download from my Linux box, everything is great at first (1500 Kbits/sec!!), but after a few minutes, the network connection dies. When I swing to the laptop and open IE, Google comes up instantly. When I ping the laptop from my Linux box, it comes back fine. But I can't restore the connection without rebooting the laptop. What do y'all think the problem is here? (Yes, I know--I'm using a Win laptop--but I can't help that at the moment.) Miark Miark, The only experience I have with cable may not be directly relevant to yours, but in case it helps... The cable connection I set up for a client required a login process to kick things off and then re-login whenever the heartbeat timed out. To make this work from multiple clients on the LAN side, I needed to run squid on the linux machine I was using as a gateway and have the client machines connect via that proxy. This makes the cable network see a single client, although there are multiple users behind it. Could the way you are running it be either - bypassing the login/keep-alive process so that when the connection times out it doesn't get re-made, or - result in the the linux machine being seen as a second user - without a valid login. I remember one guy on this list who I helped to get his cable running, who would start the connection from his W$ machine, then fire up linux and have the connection survive for a few minutes then die. That was because of this login issue. As I said, may not be relevant to your case. Good luck Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
