From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 12 18:40:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E912816A41C for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:40:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com (dagney.celestial.com [192.136.111.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9638843D4C for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:40:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bill@celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5BF1241E7; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (alexis.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 90372-02-2; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id A89CA1241E0; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:41:38 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050712184138.GA85668@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000601c58631$ddddd770$576e980a@pquser4> <17107.52774.449268.217085@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17107.52774.449268.217085@jerusalem.litteratus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Subject: Re: cant setup up comcast cable modem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:40:14 -0000 On Tue, Jul 12, 2005, Robert Huff wrote: > >Brant Anderson writes: > >> I have tried everything on the web and have had no luck. I have >> the cable modem direct to the freebsd computer (through ethernet >> card) but I can not reach the internet. I try to ping but it >> comes back host could not be resolved. How should I set up my >> network? > > My girlfriend, who is a tier 1 Comcast internet service rep, >says you probably have a bad modem configuration file _on their >end_. She advises this is a common problem ("We've been getting a >lot of that recently.") and you should call Comcast tech support. Typically when setting up Comcast cable connections, the first thing you have to do is initially configure your web browser to use their server as a proxy server. Comcast traps all connections from new sites to their server, but unless you have it set to proxy from that same server, your machine cannot complete their sign up procedures. If one changes the device connecting to the cable ``modem'' (e.g. from a Windows machine to FreeBSD box, or perhaps to a commodity router/firewall from Netgear, LinkSys, etc.), you will probably have to power cycle the cable modem to get it to accept a NIC with a new MAC address. Most of the low-end router/firewall appliances have the ability to change their MAC address to deal with cases where the cable/DSL provider hard codes it to the original machine. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise,'' said Cash McCall, ``but when one of our citizens show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best to make him feel that he ought to be ashamed of himself.'' -- Cameron Hawley