From owner-freebsd-net Fri Dec 10 15:55:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7120514C0A for ; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 15:55:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA83746; Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:55:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:55:28 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: Stan Brown Cc: FreeBSD Networking Subject: Re: New computer won't talk to cablemodem In-Reply-To: <199912102330.PAA03975@netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you used a different nic, did you reset or power off/on the cable modem to flush the old mac address of the nic? You said: I am in the process of setting up a "new" computer to use as a gatewy to the world for my home network. I am presently accessing the world through an @home cablemodem via a FreeBSD 2.2.8 machine, and natd. Works great. I have scrounged up an old 486 to take this machines place. I built 3.3-STABLE on it, and started trying to make a similar setup work. Unfortunately I can't seem to get as far as pinging the cabemodem providers gateway machine :-( I must be doing something dumbe here. Here is what I see: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message