From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 9 20:28:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dayab.ch (mail.dayab.ch [193.135.253.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64E8937B419 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1060 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2001 00:20:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bturtle.ch) (193.135.253.141) by mail.dayab.ch with SMTP; 10 Dec 2001 00:20:09 -0000 Message-ID: <3C13ABED.B249B519@bturtle.ch> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 18:22:37 +0000 From: "S. Aeschbacher" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; OpenBSD 3.0 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hal Snyder , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cable modem connection problem 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message