From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 3:46:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A8537B4C5; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 03:46:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA28002; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 03:43:14 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAz4ayi0; Thu Oct 19 22:49:33 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA10743; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:52:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010200552.WAA10743@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Routing issue with cable modem To: marko@tellurian.com (Marko Ruban) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 05:52:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD questions), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <39EF5505.7B7C2BFD@tellurian.com> from "Marko Ruban" at Oct 19, 2000 04:09:41 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I guess no one knew the answer to my original question about getting RCN > cable modem (with analog upstream line dialup) to work. So here's a > somewhat simplified question. I narrowed the problem down to routing. > Cable modem does dial out when I try to ping something on it's subnet > (10.17.56.###), however it does not respond to any broadcast ARP queries > about location of DNS server. [ ... ] > P.S.S. On a side note: it would be very interesting to know how MSWin98 > does it's network setup, that it has no trouble using the modem. Have you tried typing "route print" into an MSDOS window, and having Windows simply tell you what its network configuration? I suspect you are incorrectly setting up an asymetric route, since you say that you have zero upchannel through the cable line, and must use an analog dialup, instead... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message