Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:12:12 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cable connection problems Message-ID: <20010626001212.E1302@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200106260307.XAA00976@scraemondaemon.my.domain>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:06:19PM -0400 References: <20010625132507.A20063@sec-tools.corp.globalstar.com> <200106260307.XAA00976@scraemondaemon.my.domain>
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:06:19PM -0400, Ian P. Thomas wrote: > I don't have Windows installed on the machine that houses > FreeBSD (believe it or not, it is the only OS that won't install on this > box, and this is after three hours on the phone with MS tech support). The > Windows is 95 and runs on a Gateway Solo laptop. Grrr... There is a good chance your modem or your ISP have "locked on" to the MAC address of the notebook. That's would explain the tcpdump(8) output. Was then notebook the first device you used on the coax service? Try power-cycling the modem between using devices. > Are there any questions, specific, that I can ask my ISP to find out the info > I am going to hopefully gather from packet capturing? Ask them if anything locks on to the MAC address and if there is any problem with moving the Ethernet connection from one machine to another. No need to tell them that the machines are running different operating systems unless they ask. > As an aside, is there a site that keeps track of which high speed > access services work with OS's other then Windows? Any real Internet connections will work with any operating system. That's what "inter-net" means; protocols that allow different types of machines and networks to communicate. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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