Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:21:11 -0800 From: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> To: "S. Aeschbacher" <s.aeschbacher@bturtle.ch> Cc: Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cable modem connection problem Message-ID: <3C14E0F7.3060902@isi.edu> References: <20011206071926.QTHW27606.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@there> <3C0F7966.908CD6E6@bturtle.ch> <3C1005ED.4090001@isi.edu> <20011207000918.JIID10846.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@there> <3C100F4D.3080900@isi.edu> <85k7vyzspp.fsf@stiegl.niksun.com> <87n10s8rn6.fsf@cb293842-b.rmdws1.il.home.com> <3C13ABED.B249B519@bturtle.ch>
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S. Aeschbacher wrote: > Hal Snyder wrote: > > [snip] > >>Sounds as if the MAC of the upstream provider occasionally changes. >>Don't know enough about cable to understand it better, and problem is >>gone now so can't check for sure. >> > As far as my cases are concerned, the MAC address does not change. When > the arp entry is deleted, the same MAC of the gateway is inserted into > the arp table. Actually, it sounds like your provider actively mucks with the link after a certain time - are these "residential" pipes? If so, they may do that to prevent you from running servers. In any case, I'd be surprised if this really was a FreeBSD issue; I really think it's the provider doing something weird. (And on Windows you'll never see the problem, since you typically reboot more frequently than every 10 hours anyway... :-) Lars -- Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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