From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 10:26:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beta.root-servers.ch (beta.root-servers.ch [195.49.33.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42E8237B66C for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 72840 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2000 17:26:46 -0000 Received: from client75-185.hispeed.ch (HELO work.root.li) (62.2.75.185) by beta.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 13 Oct 2000 17:26:46 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:30:20 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.46c) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <120108088352.20001013193020@buz.ch> To: John Turner Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Cable modem ISP keeps timing out In-reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20001013094428.00b078d0@mail.johnturner.com> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20001013090407.00b1b810@mail.johnturner.com> <4.3.2.7.0.20001013094428.00b078d0@mail.johnturner.com> 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 Hello John, Friday, October 13, 2000, 3:52:47 PM, you wrote: > Hi - > FYI, I have the Toshiba PCX1100 DOCSIS Cable Modem > (http://www.toshiba.com/taisnpd/products/pcx1100.html). > I had to call them and add the MAC for my firewall's external NIC (for me > its rl0) to their database. For grins, I also added the MAC for my primary > workstation (normally firewalled and NAT'ed), in case I ever had to connect > in an emergency without my firewall. Ouch. I think I'll be having very much fun tomorrow... My CableISP is going to replace my modem with exactly that model and since they haven't got any clue about their own network, it's quite likely that I'll run into problems. But well, it's weekend *g* Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message